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The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is acceptable to deploy the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) astatine 5 much prisons successful Jammu and Kashmir, including a high-security situation successful Kathua, which is yet to beryllium operationalised.
Plans “are nether consideration” to widen the CISF’s information screen to the precocious information situation astatine Mahanpur (Kathua) — which volition location inmates progressive successful superior offences, including coercion — and the territory jails of Jammu, Anantnag, Kupwara, and Baramulla, a spokesperson said connected Sunday (June 21, 2026). The CISF was earlier enactment successful complaint of providing equipped information to the Central jails successful Srinagar and Jammu (Kot Bhalwal) successful October 2023.
The CISF is liable for securing some the interior and outer perimeters of these delicate facilities done a operation of trained manpower, modern surveillance systems, and strict entree power measures, the CISF spokesperson said.
Tech upgrades
In bid to cheque crimes successful the 2 Central prisons, including smuggling of narcotics, the CISF has deployed non-linear junction detectors, susceptible of detecting concealed physics circuits, dual-view x-ray baggage inspection systems, and hand-held metallic detectors astatine each entree points. It has besides enactment successful spot mobile bulletproof vehicles and round-the-clock speedy absorption squad patrols to unafraid the perimeters of these jails, the spokesperson said.
In bid to boost information astatine the 2 jails, the CISF is implementing an integration of AI-enabled CCTV systems and precocious video analytics for real-time monitoring and anomaly detection, unified command-and-control systems, and specialised grooming successful behavioural analysis, inmate profiling, and anti-sabotage measures.
Standardised information architecture
“Encouraged by the effectiveness of the existent deployment, plans are nether information for extending CISF information screen to further correctional facilities crossed Jammu & Kashmir, including High Security Prison Mahanpur (Kathua), District Jail Jammu, District Jail Anantnag, District Jail Kupwara, and District Jail Baramulla. The enlargement is aimed astatine creating a standardised and nonrecreational information architecture crossed the situation web of the Union Territory,” the CISF said, adding that the deployment assumes value successful presumption of the analyzable information challenges associated with high-security prisons.
To reappraisal the information arrangements, CISF Director General Praveer Ranjan visited Central Jail Srinagar connected June 8, erstwhile helium held elaborate discussions with situation authorities, reviewed operational preparedness, and assessed the effectiveness of the existing information architecture.
