NATIONAL SECURITY GUARD (NSG)

About:

• The National Security Guard (NSG) is an Indian special forces unit for combating terrorist activities with a view to protect states against internal disturbances.
  
  
• Units: It is a task-oriented Force and has two complementary elements in the form of the Special Action Group (SAG) comprising Army personnel and the Special Ranger Groups (SRG), comprising personnel drawn from the Central Armed Police Forces / State Police Forces.
  
  
• Parent agency: Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
  
  
• Establishment: It was raised in 1984, following Operation Blue Star and the assassination of Indira Gandhi.
  
  
• Status: It has been formed under the National Security Guard Act, 1986.
  
  
• Headquarters: New Delhi.
  
  
• The NSG was modelled on the pattern of the SAS of the UK and GSG-9 of Germany.
  
  
• Motto: Sarvatra Sarvottama Suraksa.
  
  
• According to ministry of home affairs website, It is one of the 7 Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF).
  
  
• Director General (DG): The head of NSG, designated as Director General (DG), is selected by the Home Ministry. All the selected DGs have been officer from Indian Police Service (IPS).
  
  

Close Protection Force (CPF) Protocol:

• The National Security Guard (NSG), which also provides security cover to select VIPs like has adopted a “close protection force” (CPF) protocol to better secure the dozen VIPs under its ‘Z+’ cover of ‘black cat’ commandos.
  
  
• Now NSG commandos will provide close-body protection to VIPs every time they visit a public place compared with the earlier mobile security concept under which commandos secured the person only while on move.
  
  
• The Special Protection Group (SPG) protects its VIPs outside and inside a venue, with commandos encircling the VIP like their shadow, they said.