In a bid to ensure enhanced security for the Indira Gandhi International airport here, a new hi-tech anti-intrusion system will be installed soon.
The mechanism known as the Perimeter Intrusion Detection System (PIDS) will be deployed by mid-April this year along the 37 kilometres of the airport periphery, a top security official said.
"We are in the process of installing the system. It would be done by the Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL)authorities," Director General of Central Industrial Security
Force (CISF) N R Das told reporters here. The CISF is in charge of the airport's security.
The system will detect unauthorised entry through the perimeter walls of the airport. Recently, an intruder was spotted on a runway after he sneaked into the airport by scaling the boundary wall, an incident which the CISF said was
a "failure" on its part.
The new system, sources said, will have taut wire, buried cables and hi-tech CCTV cameras along with radars to effectively track any kind of intrusion on the airport land.
Once the system is put in place, all the equipment will work in tandem. "If a person does intrude and step on the airport land, the underground cables will send a signal to the
camera which will instantly zoom in on the intrusion point.
This would be followed by an alarm, thereby alerting the security officials posted there," a source said.
Das also said that the large airports like Mumbai and Delhi will have an increased presence of CISF security personnel on the city side.
"The city side deployment has been there at the Delhi airport. At the Mumbai airport we are in the process of making the arrangement," he said.
CISF Additional Director General (Airport sector) M S Bali said that security measures are changed and enhanced as aviation security is a "dynamic concept" and terrorists also keep on changing methods.
"The modus operandi they (terrorists) have used once may not be used again. I am just saying this may be a view... may be correct or not.. that in future the terrorists may think of
attempting a straight hijacking... but there have been cases of passengers trying to overpower the hijackers...
"They (terrorists) may now try to attack the airports at peak hours from the frontal side so that they are able to inflict maximum damage... we keep on taking all these factors
into our planning and it is for this reason we have got deployed on the city side at bigger airports," Bali said.
The airport security will also be enhanced by another 900 CISF security staff as the new T3 terminal is coming up at Indira Gandhi International Airport in the national capital.
The security personnel will also be trained to man CCTV control room in view of the airport expansion and also the Commonwealth Games, Das said.