A recent incident in early May in which a parcel containing a live detonator and ‘suspected explosive’ landed at the office of Director, Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune highlighted, what police say, a lacunae in the security set up of the institute.

Despite numerous reminders, the police say, the FTII administration ignored all the alerts. The institute of national importance, which has completed half a century of its existence, still doesn’t have a security policy in place, which would establish a standard operating procedure (SOP) to deal with visitors and parcels that come to the campus. The institute doesn’t even have a regular security officer since March 2000 and the job is being done by a contractual employee who keeps changing, reveal the documents accessed under the RTI. The Deccan Police station also conducted several security audits in the past and had pointed to several security lapses, which have not been addressed till date.