Daesh, Maoist threats to dominate DGPs’ meet
In a first, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will spend
almost three days with the top policemen and internal security heads of
the country in December, deliberating pressing internal security matters
like the influence of Islamic State, role of social media in violence,
crime and Left Wing Extremism (LWE).
The annual
three-day conference of Directors-General of Police (DGP) of all States
and heads of the paramilitary forces is being held at Rann of Kutch,
Gujarat from December 18 to 20.
Besides the PM, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, his junior ministers and top officials will also attend it.
On
Thursday, Prime Minister held an hour’s review meeting with top
officials of the PMO Nripendra Mishra, P.K. Mishra, A.K. Doval, IB chief
Dineshwar Sharma, MHA officials and officials from Gujarat, Chief
Secretary G.R. Aloria, DGP P.C. Thakur and Mr. Modi’s trusted aide K.
Kailashnathan, who is Chief Principal Secretary of Gujarat CM Anandiben
Patel.
This is the first time that the Prime Minister
will dedicate two-and-a-half days exclusively to the security
conference. Traditionally the PM’s role has only been only restricted to
delivering an inaugural speech.“This time, the Prime Minister is even
departing from the tradition of delivering an inaugural speech, which
will be given by the Home Minister. Instead, the PM will deliver the
concluding speech,” a top official who attended the meeting told The
Hindu.
“At the meeting, the PM stressed that instead
of a single conference, there should be a series of group discussions on
the various issues so that quality deliberation can happen. He pointed
out that a conference is always a one-way communication.”
“For
example, the PM will sit with officers involved in fighting Left Wing
Extremism (LWE) and go through the presentations made by them. He will
also participate in the discussions which follow. The idea is to go
deeper into the subject. The same is true for issues like Islamic State,
India’s effort in counter-radicalisation and also role of social media
in violent crimes,” said a senior government official in Delhi.
Thursday’s meeting was the second high-level meeting involving the top officials of the Centre and the Gujarat government.
Earlier
on November 6, Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi and IB Director Dineshwar
Sharma visited Gandhinagar to hold a meeting regarding the logistics of
the conference being held in the border district of Kutch.
“As
per the details the Ministry of Home has shared with us, there will be
200 top officials, including DGPs of all States and chiefs of
paramilitary services such as the BSF, the CRPF, the ITBP for the
conference. The officials are expected to bring their families also,”
said a top official from the Home Department in Gujarat.
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