After 26/11, the BMC had promised that its security personnel would be trained in bomb detection and disposal, and that they would undergo basic police training under the State Reserve Police Force (SRPF). Also, the corporation was to set up a new firing range at Bhandup complex. The current number of vacant posts in the civic body’s security department has increased from 800 in 2008 to 1,000 this year.

The civic body had also planned to install biometric thumb readers and cameras to click close-up photographs of visitors to its headquarters, and also to recruit ex-serviceman familiar in the use of weapons.