Airports across India to have tighter security checks

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

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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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