Anti-intrusion system for IGI airport next month

New Delhi, Mar 8 (PTI) 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. (MORE) PTI