Union Home And Cooperation Minister, Amit Shah Inaugurated The Newly Established Aviation Security Control Centre (ASCC) Of CISF

New Delhi 22.07.2023: On 22.07.2023, Hon’ble Union Home and Cooperation Minister, Amit Shah inaugurated the newly constructed Aviation Security Control Centre (ASCC) at Mahipalpur Campus. Tapan Kumar Deka, Director, IB, Zulfiquar Hasan, Director General BCAS and other dignitaries were also present on the occasion.

CISF was inducted at airports for the first time in February 2000. After 02 decades, currently, CISF is providing security cover to 66 airports out of 134 operational airports in the country, which include extremely busy and hyper-sensitive airports of the country like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Jammu, Srinagar, Amritsar etc.

In order to monitor the security functions and resource utilisation on the real-time basis, Security Operations Control Centres (SOCCs) are functional at every airport. These SOCCs serve as nerve/nodal centre for collection and dissemination of important information 24×7, especially during contingencies.

Over a period of time, due to increased air traffic & passenger load, current security scenario, evolving nature of threat perceptions and geographical spread of airports across the country, a need was felt for centralised monitoring of incident/events occurring at airports to resolve them on real-time basis.

To fulfil the aforesaid requirement, CISF has established a Modern state-of-art centralised Aviation Security Control Centre, integrating the SOCCs of all 66 airports. The control centre is also equipped with cutting edge technologies like data centre, R&D Lab and War room.

Following are the salient features:

24×7 Real time data monitoring and trend analysis of passengers and air traffic. This facility will provide realistic input about pax traffic at a given point of time and help in mobilising the resources for optimum utilisation. Some of the aspects covered are- Bomb threat calls, VVIP movement highlight, major incidents, pax clearance time, utilisation of security gadgets, queue management system etc.
Incident and contingency management- All the 66 airports are now connected through VPN and IP telephonic system and can be accessed at any point of time by the senior officers during the time of any contingent situation.
Trend Analysis of real-time data to enhance the effectiveness of decision making at higher levels.
Research on advanced and AI based aviation security equipment available worldwide, comparative analysis of different equipment and its applicability at Indian airports.
Resolution of social media feedback by monitoring on popular social sites.

This newly established ASCC will play an important role in its quest to play greater role in aviation security and future of the Force.