As part of efforts to make security facilities in these sensitive facilities hassle-free but strict at the same time, the force has also begun deploying 'spotters' inside airport terminals atop the high-rise lobbies.
"After months of training, we have been successful in imparting the skill of understanding body language and profiling to our jawans and officers deployed at airports.
The Director General (DG) said the new mechanism will "drastically" reduce the time taken by security personnel for screening.
He added that an increased deployment of spotters, both in uniform and mufti, has been initiated to smoothen and bring down the time taken for security checks at the country's civilian airports.
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The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) at present guards 59 such facilities across the country except in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
"We have also instructed our men present in the lobbies of airport terminals to keep a sharp eye on the movements below. Once they pick something suspicious, our intelligence wing personnel, who mingle with the crowd in plainclothes, are immediately activated to respond to the threat," he said.