Central Industrial Security Force, responsible for security at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, suspended one of its men for the lapse on Tuesday that allowed a man to gain unauthorised entry into the active area by scaling the perimeter wall. CISF is also investigating whether this was indicative of a larger failure of the Perimeter Intrusion Detection System (PIDS).
This is the second such incident of the kind after March 2014, when a 16-year-old boy had scaled the boundary wall close to the Kapashera crossing and walked undetected almost up to an active runway.
nvestigators are trying to determine whether Tuesday's snafu was due to the airport-managed PIDS failing to sound an alarm or whether it was carelessness on the part of personnel deployed at the Security Operations Control Centre.
A few weeks ago, Dr Arvind Gupta, deputy national security advisor, had visited IGIA and expressed concerns about PIDS, which has remained controversial since its installation in 2012. In a statement issued earlier, the Delhi International Airport Ltd, which operates the airport, said a joint DIAL-CISF exercise in May soon after the Pathankot terror attack had proved the efficacy of the system. However, CISF sources confided that PIDS continued to generate false alarms and was not fully reliable.
25/09/16 Anvit Srivastava/The Times Of India
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This is the second such incident of the kind after March 2014, when a 16-year-old boy had scaled the boundary wall close to the Kapashera crossing and walked undetected almost up to an active runway.
nvestigators are trying to determine whether Tuesday's snafu was due to the airport-managed PIDS failing to sound an alarm or whether it was carelessness on the part of personnel deployed at the Security Operations Control Centre.
A few weeks ago, Dr Arvind Gupta, deputy national security advisor, had visited IGIA and expressed concerns about PIDS, which has remained controversial since its installation in 2012. In a statement issued earlier, the Delhi International Airport Ltd, which operates the airport, said a joint DIAL-CISF exercise in May soon after the Pathankot terror attack had proved the efficacy of the system. However, CISF sources confided that PIDS continued to generate false alarms and was not fully reliable.
25/09/16 Anvit Srivastava/The Times Of India
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