CISF should develop hybrid security model to train, certify private security agencies: Amit Shah

The Union Home Minister asks the force to prepare a 25-year road map to emerge as "result-oriented"

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday pitched for a "hybrid" security model where the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) could train and certify private security agencies so that they can take over the task of efficiently guarding various kinds of industrial and manufacturing units in the country.

He said the CISF, raised in 1969, worked like a silent " karmayogi" to ensure the country's industrial development and secured the private manufacturing production units as India rode on to become a $2.5 trillion-strong economy.

In the country's journey from a $2.5 trillion economy to becoming a $5 trillion economy, many units in the manufacturing sector will be established and the CISF will face new scenarios, the Home Minister added.

Without elaborating, he said the about 1.64-lakh-personnel-strong force could soon see an enhancement in its role.

Mr. Shah was speaking at the 53rd Raising Day celebrations of the CISF in Ghaziabad.

"The work of private security agencies is rapidly increasing...we have brought out rules and regulations for their functioning. Can the CISF take the responsibility of training these private security agencies?" he asked.

"Can we prepare some model for say, a private manufacturing unit, that employs between 1,000 and 5,000 staff? We will have to enhance the efficiency of the private security agencies as the CISF alone cannot render the task of securing the industrial and manufacturing units of the country," he said.