Delhi airport starts conducting trials of full-body scanner at Terminal 2

"Full-body scanners can detect non-metal objects, which are hard to detect with the conventional door frame metal detector, Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) said in a statement.

Delhi airport full-body scanner
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Press Trust of India New Delhi
2 min read Last Updated : Jun 28 2022 | 8:32 PM IST

The Delhi airport started conducting trials of a full-body scanner, which detects objects on passengers without any pat-down search, at its Terminal 2 on Tuesday.

"Full-body scanners can detect non-metal objects, which are hard to detect with the conventional door frame metal detector, Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) said in a statement.

DIAL has installed a full-body scanner at the security check area for trials, it said.

The trials would be conducted on a real-time basis i.e. passengers would have to pass through it during their security check before moving to the security hold area," the statement said.
 

 

Aviation security regulator BCAS had in April 2019 directed 84 hypersensitive and sensitive airports -- including the Delhi airport -- in India to install body scanners by March 2020, replacing existing door frame metal detectors, hand-held scanners and pat-down searches of passengers to detect metallic objects.

The trials of a full-body scanner at the Delhi airport would be carried out for a period of 45 to 60 days, the statement said.

"During this period, feedback of all the stakeholders the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS), the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), the airport operator DIAL, and passengers -would be taken, examined, and evaluated," it said.

Upon completion of trials, the findings would be shared with regulatory bodies for evaluation and the further course of action would be decided accordingly, it mentioned.

(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

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First Published: Jun 28 2022 | 8:30 PM IST

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