Here's How Obama's Visit Will Make Delhi India's Most Secure City

India has pulled out all stops for the security for Modi¡¯s first Republic Day speech. What¡¯s more important is the other guy on the stage with him ¨C American President Barack Obama. While it is a moment of pride for India to host Barack Obama, we should be embarrassed that we¡¯re pulling out all stops to make a foreigner safe, even as Delhi¡¯s own women are getting molested and raped every hour.

We¡¯ve had 4 years to put up CCTVs. We didn¡¯t.

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Obama's address when he visits Delhi is the ITC Maurya Hotel. A Delhi police security audit found that a stretch of road here doesn't have CCTV. This is embarrassing because Obama stayed at the Maurya in 2010. Which means we've had 4 years to install cameras and chose not to. Delhi was supposed to have put up 75 CCTV cameras near the hotel, but Delhi Police headquarters has apparently been lazy about it. These aren¡¯t the kind of CCTVs you see in an ATM, but are armed with 36x optical zoom ability so that they can zoom in on a potential terrorist¡¯s pimple.

We need American security officials to remind us that we need lighting and cops on the roads.

US security officials asked Delhi Police to light up the central ridge opposite the hotel. There will also be cops posted at the ridge area.

500 US secret service agents.

So it¡¯ll feel like this:

Even flowerpots aren¡¯t safe!

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After input from Intelligence agencies that bombs could be hidden anywhere, Special Cell and Crime Branch officers have been asked to be vigilant about the flower pots around Rajpath and India Gate, 24/7.

Aggressive threat analysis.

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There¡¯s a lot at stake. According to a report in the Mail Today, there are threats coming in everyday against both Modi and Obama, and agencies are hard at work analysing the massive amounts of data.

American invasion of the Maurya Sheraton.

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According to an unnamed senior police officer who spoke to Reuters, ¡°Obama¡¯s security team will take over ITC Maurya Sheraton Hotel from January 20 and seal the place till the President¡¯s departure.¡±

Ridiculously high level of planning involved.

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The American team:

1. FBI
2. CIA
3. NSA

While India is putting together the:

1. Delhi Police
2. Central Industrial Security Force
3. Intelligence Bureau
4. Air traffic controllers

All this for a security plan that covers both on-ground and air security for Obama.

Snipers, commandoes and other fancy stuff.

On ground forces will feature 10,000 paramilitary troopers and an 80,000-member-strong Delhi Police, and we don¡¯t know how many American forces. There also might be snipers appointed across Delhi's buildings.

Obama¡¯s entourage.

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According to a Daily Mail report, the following are coming to Delhi:

6 aircrafts, carrying security staff
President¡¯s cavalcade, with 30 cars. One of them might be the Cadillac One, among the world¡¯s most high tech cars.
Marine One helicopters
Air Force One, Obama¡¯s plane ¨C equipped to protect Obama even from nuclear attack

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The CISF is going to try to trick its own men to see how good they are!

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The CISF has put together a decoy team that will attempt to enter and fly out of India with fake documents. Pretending to be regular passengers, this crack team will hit airports across India. This is because security arrangements at Delhi airport are low, despite specific alerts from the Intelligence Bureau.

What's really scary is that they just succeeded. ¡°Recently, the decoy team managed to get entry with a fake e-ticket, exposing loopholes in the security of Delhi airport ahead of Obama¡¯s visit. The team members didn¡¯t stop there and tried to fly with fake boarding passes but a CISF official realised that the passes were fake and caught them.¡± a source told the Daily Mail.