450 Paramilitary Personnel Trained To Drive VIP Cars For G20 Summit

A fleet of both bullet-resistant and non bullet-resistant Audi, Mercedes, BMW and Hyundai Genesis cars had been employed or bought via the Union government to ferry 41 top overseas guests.

New Delhi: As many as 450 drivers of CRPF's VIP safety wing were skilled to pilot the special left-hand driven and bullet-covered cars with a purpose to be used to ferry foreign dignitaries who may be collaborating within the G20 Leaders' Summit in Delhi next week, reputable assets stated.

A fleet of both bullet-resistant and non bullet-resistant Audi, Mercedes, BMW and Hyundai Genesis automobiles had been hired or purchased by way of the Union government to ferry forty one pinnacle overseas guests.

These mainly-skilled drivers will take the premiers and leaders to their locations within the countrywide capital, just like the fundamental assembly venue of 'Bharat Mandapam' and the 5-big name inns in which the dignitaries will live, they said.

The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is the country's largest paramilitary pressure with over 3.25 lakh personnel in its ranks deployed for a diffusion of inner protection obligations. Its unique VIP protection wing with a strength of over 6,000 personnel guards 149 high-danger people which includes Union Home Minister Amit Shah, former prime minister Manmohan Singh and the Gandhis - Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

The force has deployed a complete of 900 personnel, such as these 450 drivers, for providing proximate security to the VIPs throughout the two days of the G20 Summit on September nine-10 and the only preceding day of September eight whilst the heads of various international locations will start arriving in the national capital.

This special G20 pool of the CRPF includes employees who've in advance served within the Special Protection Group (SPG) that protects the high minister and the counter-terrorist force National Security Guard (NSG).

Official assets said the spouses of the dignitaries could be be guarded by using the in particular-skilled ladies and men commandos of any other paramilitary pressure - Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB).

As more than 60 automobiles had been mainly pooled in to carry the VVIPs are left-exceeded, the CRPF VIP protection wing has undertaken a special education to talent drivers for those vehicles as India has right-hand drive protocol, the assets said.

The force got some left-hand pushed automobiles from Germany to train those employees apart for approximately a month aside from skilling them to force the cumbersome bullet resistant luxurious automobiles.

The Border Security Force (BSF) has been tasked with providing the "contingency" carcade for the G20 Leaders' Summit, the assets stated.

Other imperative armed police forces just like the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) aside from the 'black cat' commandos of the NSG had been deployed for securing the routes and venues of the summit in coordination with Delhi Police, they said.

These forces have also deployed sniffer canine supported anti-sabotage groups for the mega international event with the CRPF by myself imparting forty eight such groups.