G20 Summit: Delhi Police’s dog squad conducts drills for detection of dummy explosives

New Delhi [India]: As Delhi gears up to host the G20 Summit next month, the Dog Squad of Delhi Police on Tuesday conducted security drills to detect dummy explosives planted in luggage and vehicles.

The police dog squad, with their handlers, performed drills on dummy explosives.

Earlier Delhi LG VK Saxena on Sunday took stock of preparations and cleanliness in the areas of the national capital and said that everything is going well.

Delhi LG visited the Palam-Delhi Cantt area and said, “Heads of 40 countries will travel through this route. I am happy that this area has been transformed. Fountains have been installed here. 61 roads of Delhi where the movement of leaders will happen have been transformed. Plantation has been done.

Roads have been repaired, footpaths have been cleaned and repaired.

Everything is going well.”
The G20 Summit is scheduled to be held in the national capital over two days — September 9-10 — at the state-of-the-art Bharat Mandapam Convention Centre at Pragati Maidan.

India assumed the G20 Presidency on December 1 last year.

G20 was founded in 1999 after the Asian financial crisis as a forum for Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors to discuss global economic and financial issues. It was upgraded to the level of Heads of State or Government in the wake of the global economic and financial crisis of 2007, and, in 2009, was designated the “premier forum for international economic cooperation”.

The G20 members represent around 85 per cent of the global GDP, over 75 per cent of the global trade, and about two-thirds of the world population.