Terrorists may try to attack crowded airports at peak hours so that they are able to inflict 'maximum damage', the Central Industrial Security Force warned on Monday.
"They (terrorists) may now try to attack the airports at peak hours from the frontal side so that they are able to inflict maximum damage...we keep on taking all these factors into our planning," said CISF Additional Director General (Airport sector) M S Bali.
Bali said security measures have been changed and enhanced as aviation security is a 'dynamic concept' and terrorists also keep on changing their methods. The CISF is in-charge of security at airports.
"The modus operandi they (terrorists) have used once may not be used again. I am just saying this may be a view, may be correct or not, that in the future the terrorists may think of attempting a straight hijacking, but there have been cases of passengers trying to overpower the hijackers," he added.
The force's Director General N R Das said large airports like Mumbai and Delhi will have an increased presence of CISF security personnel.
Das said a new hi-tech anti-intrusion system will be installed next month at the Indira Gandhi International airport in New Delhi in a bid to ensure enhanced security. The mechanism, known as the Perimeter Intrusion Detection System, will be deployed by mid-April this year along the 37 kms of the airport periphery, he said.
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 admitted was a 'failure' on its part.
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