CISF, Parliament security service to provide security cover at oath-taking

Personnel from the Central Industrial Security Force and the Parliamentary Security Service are jointly coordinating the security measures for the oath-taking ceremony for new parliamentarians likely to be held at the end of the month, people familiar with the matter said. PSS, which is the in-house security of Parliament building, has not been removed from security duty and will assist CISF personnel at each gate, they added, asking not to be named. In December last year, on the anniversary of the 2001 Parliament terror attack on December 13, two men walked through three layers of security with smoke canisters concealed in their shoes, vaulted into the Lok Sabha from the visitors’ gallery, and sprayed smoke inside the chamber during Zero Hour. “Unarmed CISF personnel will be present at the gates along with PSS staff at the gate leading to the hall where the parliamentarians of the 18th Lok Sabha will be taking oath. Earlier Delhi Police personnel were involved at this security point but they did not check the shoes of visitors – a loophole that was exploited by the people involved in the security breach last year.