Airports across India are set to recalibrate security equipment to make them significantly more sensitive. In a couple of months, doorframe metal detectors (DFMDs) are likely to be able to detect even very small pieces of jewellery or metal in shoes, besides surgical or cosmetic implants in a passenger’s body. 

Passengers will be required to remove their shoes and all possible pieces of metal, including jewellery, from their person before passing through the DFMD. A full physical patdown will follow.

Passengers at many major western airports already take off their shoes before going through the metal detector as per a FE report.

The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS)’s effort to recalibrate DFMDs at Indian airports to international specifications is intended to tackle attempts by terrorists to “creatively construct and conceal weapons”, a top aviation security source said.

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