New Delhi: The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has begun special training exercises to sensitise its personnel — deployed at the airport — regarding passengers with prosthetic limbs.
The training sessions were organised after the CISF, which is in charge of security at airports, received numerous complaints of inconvenience during security checks of such passengers. In some cases, passengers complained that they were made to remove their prosthetic limbs during the checks.
The idea, sources said, is to ensure that passengers with such prosthetic limbs are not harassed and that CISF staff at the airport is sensitised to deal with the problems the passengers face. Patients with such difficulty are invited to be a part of the training programme so that they can make suggestions and give their feedback.
According to CISF sources, passengers with prosthetic limbs have reported harassment at the hands of the staff time and again, and have insisted taking off their prosthetic limbs during checks is an ordeal. Accordingly, from March-end, the CISF inserted a module on passengers with prosthetic limbs in its training programme to ensure that its staff is well-equipped to handle difficulties faced by such passengers.
12/05/14 Shalini Narayan/Indian Express
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The training sessions were organised after the CISF, which is in charge of security at airports, received numerous complaints of inconvenience during security checks of such passengers. In some cases, passengers complained that they were made to remove their prosthetic limbs during the checks.
The idea, sources said, is to ensure that passengers with such prosthetic limbs are not harassed and that CISF staff at the airport is sensitised to deal with the problems the passengers face. Patients with such difficulty are invited to be a part of the training programme so that they can make suggestions and give their feedback.
According to CISF sources, passengers with prosthetic limbs have reported harassment at the hands of the staff time and again, and have insisted taking off their prosthetic limbs during checks is an ordeal. Accordingly, from March-end, the CISF inserted a module on passengers with prosthetic limbs in its training programme to ensure that its staff is well-equipped to handle difficulties faced by such passengers.
12/05/14 Shalini Narayan/Indian Express
