In 2019, full body scanners to be present in Chennai airport
Posted on: 14/Jan/2019 9:38:53 AM
For the purpose of safety it is necessary that the airport authorities must check the passengers at the airports. The news that has come out in this regard is Chennai airport would have full body scanners in this 2019. The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security or BCAS would introduce these full body scanners at all the major airports in India. For screening the passengers, a new machine would be making its presence felt in Chennai. Early last month, BCAS said that guidelines for introducing and using the full body scanners would be released soon.
The personnel belonging to CISF or Central Industrial Security Force would be managing the scanners at the security check. As per a senior official of CISF it is clear that the need for the full body scanners were being discussed for a long time. For the use of these body scanners at the Indian airports, the BCAS must come out with specifications. He then hinted that personnel belonging to CISF would be sent for training once the decision is taken. The superb advantage of body scanners is it would ease the workload of the CISF personnel. Now CISF frisk all the passengers who pass through the security check is known. By these scanners it is enough for the personnel belonging to CISF to frisk those passengers who trigger beep or alarm at the scanner. Few trials were conducted by the BCAS at few airports to know about the efficiency of the system for Indian situation.
During the early morning and evening peak hours, the Chennai airport handles around 118 flights in 5 hours of time. It is revealed that the pressure on the CISF personnel to speed up the checks is very high in that time. The information collected was as soon as the specifications of the body scanning machines come out installation of scanners would be done. This was confirmed by an AAI official.
The official added that after the BCAS specifications come out, the tenders would be floated to buy the machines. He finally pointed out about how the personnel would be trained in monitoring the images once machines come.
