The Central Industrial Security Force is a Central Armed
Police Force in India.
It was set up under an Act of the Parliament of India on 10
March 1969 with strength of 2,800. CISF was subsequently made an armed force of
the Union of India by another Act of Parliament passed on 15 June 1983. Its
current strength is 165,000. The strength will be raised to 200,000 over the
next 2–3 years. CISF is the largest industrial security force in the world. I had also worked in CISF more than 24 years.
It is directly under the federal Ministry of Home Affairs and
its headquarters are at New Delhi.
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| CISF unit DHPP Dhauliganga |
The CISF provides security cover to 300 industrial units and
other establishments located all over India. Industrial sectors like atomic
power plants, space installations, defence production units such as the Indian
Ordnance Factories, DRDO, mints, oil fields and refineries, major ports, heavy
engineering, steel plants, barrages, fertiliser units, airports and
hydroelectric/thermal power plants, and currency note presses producing Indian
currency are protected by CISF. It thereby covers installations all over India
straddling a variety of terrain and climatic conditions. CISF also provides
consultancy services to private industries as well as other organisation within
the Indian government.
