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Security forces have standard operating procedures (SOPs) in areas susceptible to terror strikes. In the light of the car-bomb attack in Pulwama, Shaurya Gurung takes a look at the SOPs, what happened at Pulwama and history of terror attacks on convoys:

The CRPF will improve its standard operating procedure by adding additional armed personnel in buses that transport troops to and from Kashmir
*Adequate distance between vehicles
*Fix time to reach destination from starting point
*Fix halts for convoys

*Fix time to reach destination from starting point
*Fix halts for convoys
*Road Opening Party: ROP secures a particular stretch of a road by sanitising them from mines, bombs etc. Each force is given an area of responsibility. The blast took place in area which was CRPF’s responsibility
*Civilian traffic: Civilian vehicles are not stopped while the convoy moves. They are allowed to overtake and be between convoy vehicles. This was not the case before 2003 in J&K, when CRPF could  ..

CRPF convoy moves from Jammu to Srinagar (271 km) and viceversa on alternate days
*In summer it is regular but landslide and snowfall makes it erratic in winter
*Jammu camp has capacity to accommodate only 1,000 personnel. If snow blocks highway, personnel are shifted to nearby locations. Number of stranded personnel may reach 4,000 at times
*Convoy strength increased to clear ‘pile-up’. On February 4, convoy had 91 vehicles with 2,871 transients
*Plying lesser number of vehicles .. 

What Happened On February 14 

SOPs followed, says CRPF 

*The convoy from Jammu has plied only thrice in the last fortnight, as snow blocked road and CRPF jawans were stranded in Jammu since February 4 

*16 vehicles dropped out at Qazigund on reaching destination but 16 ‘mobile bunkers’ joined convoy to deal with terrorist ambushes which increase beyond Qazigund. The convoy left Qazigund at 2:38 pm 

*At Latoomode of Awantipora in Pulwama, an explosive laden vehicle en ..

SIMILAR ATTACKS 

*Nine IED blasts, including two in Pulwama, in 2018, no casualties 

*Attack on CRPF ROP in Nawgam on Dec 11, 2013, 1 personnel killed 

*Attack on CRPF ROP on Dec 3, 2014, in Pulwama, 1 killed 

*CRPF convoy attacked on Dec 7, 2015, in Pampore, 5 injured 

*CRPF convoy attacked on Feb 20, 2016, 2 killed 

*CRPF convoy attacked on June 25,2016, 8 killed 

*Attack on ROP on May 11, 2015, in Bejbiera, 2 killed 

*Amarnath Yatra convoy attacked on  ..