Jammu: The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), one of the armed police forces under the India’s Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), will be deployed in Kot Bhalwal jail in Jammu- a high security Central jail in the Union Territory carrying over 900 prisoners.
The security of the high-security Central jail was handed over to the CISF from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on October 20 and nearly 260 odd personnel of the force headed by a Deputy Commandant rank officer are deployed to provide inner as well as outer security cover at the jail.
For years, the security of the jail was in the hands of the CRPF, another Central armed police force under the MHA.
On October 13, the MHA issued an order to the CISF to take over the security of Kot Bhalwal jail from the CRPF. This is the second prison of Jammu and Kashmir to be secured by the CISF–a paramilitary force with current strength of nearly 1.75 lakh personnel.
On October 3, the CISF also took over the security of Srinagar jail from the CRPF following an MHA order issued to the force on September 22 this year.
“The CISF took over the security of Kot Bhalwal jail from the CRPF on October 20,” CISF Deputy Inspector General (Operations) Shrikant Kishore told ANI.
The CISF personnel are mandated to provide round-the-clock security at the inner as well as outer periphery of Kot Bhalwal jail– one of the two high-security Central jails in Jammu and Kashmir.
