NSG to Pull out 900 Men From VIP Duty for Terror Operations

Times of India
July 1, 2012

NEW DELHI: For the first time in many years, the country’s elite counter-terror force NSG has decided to pull out its over 900 commandos rendering VIP security duties and put them to perform specialist counter-terror and counter-hijack operations.

The ‘black cat’ commandos of the National Security Guard (NSG) are segregated into five units, two Special Action Groups (SAGs) manned by officers and jawans from the Army and three SRGs (Special Rangers Groups) comprising personnel from paramilitary forces.

While each of the two SAGs (51 and 52) are tasked for counter-terror and counter-hijack operations, respectively, the SRGs (11,12 and 13) render logistical support to the SAGs during operations and are deployed for guarding high-risk VIPs/VVIPs.

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This article was posted: Sunday, July 1, 2012 at 4:40 pm

Tags: foreign affairs, terrorism

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