Renowned Security Solutions firm SIS (India) limited has been given responsibility for providing overall security cover during the 21st Commonwealth Games scheduled to be held in Brisbane, Australia from April 4 to April 15. The Regional Director of SIS (India) ltd Ashok Kumar Sinha, who retired from the post of DG (GRP), Jharkhand, gave the information in a press conefernce in the presence of Regional Vice President P Sunmukha Rao here on Friday.
Sinha said that the Commonwealth Games are one of the biggest sporting events of the world and this has happened for the first time that a government has selected a private security agency for providing security to such extent.
As many as 6,600 athletes from 53 countries would participate in the games alongwith thousands of other delegates, he added.
The Regional Director informed that in order to ensure total security 4500 security officers with latest gadgets and various wireless security sets will be deputed at the venue. Thousands of cameras, wireless sets, thermal imaging and night vision cameras would be installed and used by SIS in the historic event.
Chairman of SIS, RSK Sinha, a Member of Parliament had recently visited Jharkhand and had met with CM Raghubar Das, who congratulated the SIS team for such a momentous achievement.
Notably, the security solutions company has started its journey from Ramgarh, Jharkhand in 1974 and has grown into a multinational firm which is at present a biggest security company in India as well as in Australia. It is also one of the biggest security solutions company in Asia.
SIS has a total of 251 branches, 19 training academies with a total of two lakh employees. It has more than 10,000 employees in Jharkhand and its training academy in Garhwa is the biggest private security training centre in the whole country, which has already trained over five lakh youths.
Sinha said that in future the company would try to expand and would try to provide employment opportunities to more and more people.