Security in Parliament | 21 Jun 2024
In April 2024 the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) was handed over to the security of the Parliament after an extraordinary security breach at Parliament House on 13th Dec 2023.
- Parliament security is a part of the Lok Sabha Secretariat. Earlier, security responsibilities were with the Parliament Security Service (PSS) and Watch and Ward committee.
- The Watch and Ward Committee was set up on the initiative of Vithalbhai Patel, president of the Central Legislative Assembly.
- The committee was set up after the incident of 8th April 1929, when revolutionaries Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw bombs and pamphlets into the Assembly.
- The committee's name was changed in 2009 to PSS, which is under the control of the Speaker.
