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The duties of the security officer shall be as indicated at Appendix ‘B’ to
these instructions. In exceptional cases, where it is not possible to send
a security officer in the aircraft due to paucity of space, the film
rolls/photographic storage medium to be used in such flights shall be
signed and accounted before and after the flight by the security officer
designated for the flight.
Post Survey Security Vetting and Final Clearance
All aerial photography/survey tasks will be security vetted by all
concerned intelligence and security agencies irrespective of tasks
undertaken with or without on board security officer before final
classification/clearance. The operators/uisers will give an undertaking
to the effect that under to circumstances they will create any duplicate
copy of the aerial photography/ survey data till security vetted by MOD
agencies and cleared.
However, MOD may grant waiver in exception to the provisions
contained in the para 2.9 above on case to case basis in the following
circumstances. MOD shall keep all intelligence agencies informed of
such waiver.
(a) In case of Disaster related tasks where urgency is considered in
national interest.
(b) In case of aerial survey/photography undertaken by the Central/State
Govt. agencies which does not involve flying over or in vicinity of
Vas/VPs/Border/Coastal areas/Restricted Areas, the post vetting of
data may be dispensed with on case to case basis provided the aircraft
is equipped with state-of-the-art positioning systems which will record
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