NEDUMBASSERY: Visitors’ entry into the viewer’s gallery and the terminals will be restricted from Sunday to January 30 owing to heightened security in sensitive installations in connection with Republic Day, Airport Director A C K Nair has said. As per the security procedure recommended by the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security, incoming vehicles would be thoroughly inspected well ahead of the airport. It will be applicable to all vehicles of CIAL, police, CISF, Immigration, Customs and all other agencies working in the airport. Passengers’ bags and belongings will also be checked. The security personnel of all airlines would ensure strict secondary security frisking like ladder-point check. The passengers are requested to carry fewer luggage and report at the airport well in time to avoid delay and inconvenience. Frisking will be held thoroughly. The staff of CIAL and other airlines, various agencies working in the airside and city side will be observed constantly.The city side of the airport will be under close watch. Passengers and visitors are requested to alert the CISF or CIAL officials if any abandoned baggage is noticed. They are warned not to handle such baggage. Baggage will be screened thoroughly. The CISF and police personnel in mufti will be deployed in the city side of the airport. CCTV will be operated round the clock, installing cameras in all strategic points. Sniffer dogs and Bomb Detection and Defuse Squad will be pressed into service day and night.Nair urged the public as well as all agencies operating at CIAL to ensure smooth implementation of the security arrangements.Meanwhile, taking into consideration the increasing vehicular traffic, the time limit for stopping vehicles in front of international and domestic terminals to drop and pick up passengers will be restricted from Monday onwards, said CIAL PRO V Sankar. Vehicles can stop in front of the terminals only for a maximum of two minutes. Defaulters will be fined `1,000. Their vehicles may even be tugged away.
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