Union home minister Amit Shah said on Sunday that private security agencies and the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) could join hands for providing effective security to various private industrial and manufacturing sector units.
Government security agencies such as the CISF alone cannot render this task across the country and could gradually “hand over” to private security agencies, the home minister said at the 53rd Raising Day celebrations of the CISF at Ghaziabad.
He asked the paramilitary force to prepare a 25-year road map so that it can emerge as a “result-oriented” security agency by the time India enters the 100th year of its Independence. Keeping in view the “increasing” drone threat to industrial units along sea ports and the land border, he also asked the CISF to collaborate with agencies such as the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Border Security Force to prepare an effective counter technology against this menace.
Shah directed the CISF to consider taking the responsibility of training private security agencies. He referred to the increasing strength of women personnel in the CISF and requested its director general to make it an 80:20 (men, women) ratio, as compared to the existing 94:06 ratio in the organisation.
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