Days after a major security breach in Parliament, the central government is in talks with concerned stakeholders to give “comprehensive” security of the institution to the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF). Sources in the government said that the matter was raised in a recent meeting attended by officials of the Delhi Police, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), the CISF, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and other concerned divisions. As per sources, the final decision on the matter will be taken in another round of meetings next week. However, the sources privy to the development said, two points were majorly discussed in the meeting– the one which suggested to handover the CISF comprehensive security of the Parliament due to its expertise and the other was to continue Delhi Police security personnel at some points. An order has also been issued for the survey of the Parliament building complex to gather input before deployment of the CISF– a central armed police force (CAPF) that currently guards many central government ministry buildings in Delhi apart from installations in the nuclear and aerospace domain, civil airports and the Delhi Metro. The meeting to change the security set-up in the Parliament comes days after the Lok Sabha Secretariat suspended eight security personnel for security lapses in the Parliament security breach incident which occurred on December 13.
