Thiruvananthapuram: The unsavoury episodes at Calicut International Airport at Karipur seem to have triggered a few positive outcomes for the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport. Efforts to step up the police presence, and in turn, ensure safety of passengers here saw the City police setting up an aid-post at the airport late last week. Now, move to set up a long-awaited airport police station is gathering steam.
The aid-post, for which the Airports Authority of India (AAI) has extended facilities to the police, has seen 10 personnel being deployed. The post is located close to the international terminal. One sub-inspector and four personnel will be on duty at the aid-post, which will function round-the-clock. Earlier, there was only one policeman from the City police who was posted 24x7 at the airport.
The AAI has also handed over 10 cents of land to the police, along with sketches, to set up the airport police station, for which proposals were pending for several years. The plot is one side of the flyover, on the Chaka side of the international terminal. It will be only procedural matters that have to be completed before work starts on the new police station, a police official says.
25/06/15 The Hindu
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The aid-post, for which the Airports Authority of India (AAI) has extended facilities to the police, has seen 10 personnel being deployed. The post is located close to the international terminal. One sub-inspector and four personnel will be on duty at the aid-post, which will function round-the-clock. Earlier, there was only one policeman from the City police who was posted 24x7 at the airport.
The AAI has also handed over 10 cents of land to the police, along with sketches, to set up the airport police station, for which proposals were pending for several years. The plot is one side of the flyover, on the Chaka side of the international terminal. It will be only procedural matters that have to be completed before work starts on the new police station, a police official says.
25/06/15 The Hindu
