In a three-day exercise, which began on October 8, the CISF Deputy Inspector General, Operation, reviewed the operational preparedness of Delhi metro. All the critical security components of Delhi Metro like functioning of bomb detection squads, dog squads, armed protection, quick reaction teams, alfa group (ladies Commando Group), electronic surveillance and additional teams were reviewed in view of the alert mode in Delhi.
In order to further strengthen the preventive mechanism at Delhi Metro the number of quick reaction teams, dog squads armed protection, electronic surveillance teams and behaviour based profiling of commuters will be increased starting from this week. The dynamic deployment of armed component at important and sensitive metro stations is another initiative which will be introduced at Delhi Metro stations in this week.