New security apparatus at Secretariat

Mrityunjay Ram / TNN / Jan 3, 2006, 02:25 IST

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In a bid to beef up security at the Secretariat, RFID system will soon be introduced to keep track of vehicles.

HYDERABAD: In a bid to beef up security at the Secretariat, radio frequency identification (RFID) system will soon be introduced to keep track of vehicles.
With the intelligence agencies alerting the government on possible terrorist attacks at important places in southern states, security arrangements at the Secretariat are being tightened.
As part of the new security measures, the government has decided to make RFID tags mandatory for all the vehicles entering the Secretariat premises.
To begin with, the new system will first be made mandatory for four-wheelers. After a few months, the RFID tags will be issued even to two-wheelers, chief security officer B V Ram Reddy told The Times of India on Monday.

Outlining the advantages, the CSO said RFID would be useful to the police as it is capable of transmitting vehicle numbers and other data to the security wing more than 200 metres away from their position.
As of now, the police have been relying on cameras for surveillance. But the government has decided to switch over to the RFID, which is far more superior to cameras that use optical character recognition to monitor vehicle movement, said another official.

The officials are, however, reluctant to give further details. But they said that RFID system would first be introduced on an experimental basis before making it mandatory for all vehicles entering the Secretariat.
The government will procure RFID tags from the city-based ECIL. Ram Reddy said the police would issue permanent RFID tags to all regular vehicles, being used by senior officials and elected representatives.
For other vehicles, the security staff at the entrance gate will issue temporary tags. Moreover, solar fencing around the Secretariat would also be completed within a few weeks, the CSO said, adding that it would deter people from scaling its walls.

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