The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has revised the tenure of its personnel deployed at Parliament to a minimum of four years. At present, they are posted for three years. Personnel with a clean service record and only those who clear psychological assessment tests will be deployed, a CISF official said.
The revised policy comes in the wake of complaints by several Members of Parliament who were stopped or questioned by CISF personnel while entering the premises.
The extended tenure will make CISF personnel more familiar with MPs and their movement patterns in Parliament, which is critical for ensuring accurate identification, secure access protocols, layered threat detection and response, the official said.
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After a security breach in the new Parliament building on December 13, 2023, the Union Home Ministry approved CISF deployment at the complex. The duties were earlier assigned to the Parliament Security Service, posted since 1950 and specially trained to recognise and interact with MPs.
