MUMBAI: In the aftermath the Mumbai terror attacks, several international security companies, arm dealers and security experts are making a beeline to Mumbai and making presentation before the state Home Minister Jayant Patil and top police brass of the Maharashtra police.
The terror attacks have opened floodgates for these security agencies to showcase their skills, training expertise and security equipment not only to the Maharashtra government but also to other state governments, corporate houses, following heightened security measures after the terror attacks.
The main objectives of these security companies and arm dealers is to create awareness about the security products and the standard operating procedures that are in practice in Western countries said a state home ministry source.
On Thursday evening, at a seminar on “Safety and Security Solutions” held by All-India Association of Industries and International Security Solutions, a series of presentations were made where issues like physical security, cyber security and other security-related issues were discussed.
Making the presentations at the seminar were James Childers, CEO and founder of Aegis Security-USA, who has provided security at 2008 Olympics in China, Duncan Preen, CEO and founder of IQ Bio-UK, which provides security for UK rail network, Noam Shalit, President of Top Secure, Israel, Larry Asten, President, Special Solutions USA, that provides security gears and weapons for US marines in Afghanistan and Iraq, Eddie Koflar, CEO, Night Vision-Denmark and Richard Kim, CEO Dynasign-USA, an expert in electronic signature solutions.
“Inquiries as well as orders have been rising after the Mumbai attacks because customers are giving priority to increasing the level of security at their premises,” says Sudhir Rao, the managing director of Bartronics India Limited, a Hyderabad-based company providing bar coding systems and smart cards.
The enhanced security measures are expected to boost India’s private security business to 500 billion rupees by 2012 from about 220 billion rupees currently, according to the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry, a lobby group.
