{"id":9624,"date":"2019-08-29T16:02:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T10:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=9624"},"modified":"2019-08-29T16:02:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T10:32:20","slug":"simply-put-how-the-forces-protect-vips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/simply-put-how-the-forces-protect-vips\/","title":{"rendered":"Simply put: How the forces protect VIPs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Ministry of Home Affairs(MHA) has said that former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will continue to have Z plus security cover after the withdrawal of Special Protection Group(SPG) from his security.<\/li><li>In India,the Government of India provides security to some high-risk individuals with the help of police and local government.<\/li><li>Special Protection Group(SPG) provides security to the (a)Prime Minister(PM) of India (b)Former PM of India and (c)Members of their immediate families wherever they are.<\/li><li>Besides the SPG,VIPs in India are protected by other security forces as well.The levels of security cover are determined by the threat perception around the individual.<\/li><li>The highest level of security cover is the Z-plus category followed by Z, Y plus,Y and X categories.The higher the level of cover,the larger the number of personnel protecting the individual.<\/li><li>Further,the National Security Guard (NSG) is a counter terrorism unit under the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).It was founded in 1984, following Operation Blue Star for combating terrorist activities with a view to protect states against internal disturbances.<\/li><li>The NSG personnel are often referred to in the media as Black Cats. They are deployed to protect VIPs for whom the threat perception is the highest.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Home Affairs(MHA) has said that former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will continue to have Z plus security cover after the withdrawal of Special Protection Group(SPG) from his security. In India,the Government of India provides security to some high-risk individuals with the help of police and local government. Special Protection Group(SPG) provides security&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/simply-put-how-the-forces-protect-vips\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Simply put: How the forces protect VIPs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[5611,6662,6663],"class_list":["post-9624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-nsg","tag-spg","tag-z-plus-security","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700805455,"cached_date":1704735879},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}