Soon, robotic dogs could replace CISF's security dogs at airports

The possibility of using factory-made 'robotic canines' surfaced at the Global Aviation Security Symposium 2018, held at Montreal, Canada.

The conference was attended by CISF DG Rajesh Ranjan Additional DG M A Ganapathy, both of whom oversee security at India's airports.

The robotic dogs, reportedly, would be able to 'sniff' out explosives, as well as scan X-ray scan luggage with their eyes.

Further, the CISF also discussed the use of CT scan-based luggage screening.

This is particularly important, given that the CISF currently depends on a lot of manpower for baggage screening at airports, and such efforts at security are slated to get more difficult increasing numbers of people taking to the skies, and novel methods of smuggling explosives, drugs etc. coming up.

Notably, this was the first time that the CISF has participated in a global aviation security summit organized by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

If reports are to be believed, CISF's participation was fruitful too, and the security agency held bilateral discussions with European Union nations and other ICAO members on capacity building initiatives, with an aim to implement the new technology.