Kerala - Thiruvananthapuram   

City police tighten security

— Photo: S. Mahinsha

Through the sieve: The Railway Protection Force checks the platform at the Central Railway Station on Sunday.

Thiruvananthapuram: The city police are on full vigil following the “security threat to Kerala” from the extremist Indian Mujahideen organisation.

Director-General of Police Raman Sreevastava personally reviewed the security in the capital district. He visited the airport, the railway station and other important places along with Additional Director-General of Police, South Zone, V.R. Rajeevan, Inspector-General of Police, Thiruvananthapuram Range, Arun Kumar Sinha, and City Police Commissioner Ravada Azad Chandrasekhar.

He chaired a meeting of top-level experts at the Police Headquarters here on Sunday morning. Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan will review the security arrangements at a top-level police meeting at the headquarters on Monday.

The police have created three anti-sabotage teams for checking important places and installations in the city. Security has been tightened at the airport, Technopark, East Fort and Thampanoor bus stands and all railways stations in the city.

The police have intensified night patrolling. They are checking vehicles for explosives and arms. Pickets have been posted at communally sensitive areas. The movement of anti-social elements and those involved in communal-violence- related crimes are being monitored. The police are liaising with the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel guarding key installations in the city.

Security in and around the airport had been strengthened in view of the high alert sounded by the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security following the blasts in Bangalore and Ahmedabad and reports that terrorists are targeting Kerala.

A top official of the airport said more Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel had been deployed inside the airport and on the premises in view of the alert.

Security agencies are monitoring the vehicles entering the airport premises and those on the parking lot in front of the terminal buildings.

The CISF is in charge of security at the airport.

Airport Director N. Nagraj chaired a special security meeting to discuss the security arrangements and to review the arrangements.

The managers of various operating airlines and officials of immigration, customs and Airports Authority of India participated.

The meeting decided to scan the baggage of passengers only in their presence as part of the security measures.

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