57th Conference of Directors General of Police/Inspectors General of Police
26-08-2023
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What’s in today’s article?
- Why in news?
- What is 57th Conference of Directors General of Police / Inspectors General of Police?
- News Summary: 57th Conference of Directors General of Police / Inspectors General of Police
- What were the key highlights of the speech delivered by Union Home Minister during the inauguration of 57th Conference of Directors General of Police / Inspectors General of Police?
Why in news?
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the All India Conference of Directors General and Inspectors General of Police 2022 in New Delhi.
- The three-day conference was inaugurated by Home Minister Amit Shah on January 20, 2023.
What is 57th Conference of Directors General of Police / Inspectors General of Police?
- The three-day Conference, from January 20 to 22, 2023, is being held in hybrid format in New Delhi.
- About 100 invitees including DGP of States/UTs and Heads of Central Armed Police Forces and Central Police Organizations will attend the Conference physically.
- The remaining invitees will participate virtually from across the country.
- The conference is the culmination of extensive deliberations involving police and intelligence officers from the district, state and national levels on identified themes.
- Best practices from States and Union Territories will be presented at the Conference so that States can learn from each other.
- The conference will discuss a wide range of issues including Cyber Crime, Technology in Policing, Counter Terrorism challenges, Left Wing Extremism, capacity building, Prison Reforms, among others.
- Off late, the Conference has started discussions on futuristic themes in policing and security.
- This is to ensure not only safety in the present times, but also to develop capability to meet emerging issues and challenges.
News Summary: 57th Conference of Directors General of Police / Inspectors General of Police
- PM Modi attended the All-India Conference of Director Generals/ Inspector Generals of Police 2022 in New Delhi on 21 January.
- He will also attend the conference on 22nd January.
- The three-day Conference was inaugurated by the Union Home Minister Amit Shah on January 20, 2023.
- On the first day, deliberations centred on topics such as security challenges along the land borders with Nepal and Myanmar, strategies to identify overstaying foreigners in India and ta rgeting of Maoist strongholds.
What were the key highlights of the speech delivered by Union Home Minister during the inauguration of 57th Conference of Directors General of Police / Inspectors General of Police?
Outlined five focus areas for police forces
- The minister outlined five focus areas for police forces:
- urban policing, capacity-building, police technology, critical infrastructure security and securing digital goods.
J&K on path of peace, stability
- Terror incidents, deaths and terrorist-dominated areas in Jammu and Kashmir have diminished drastically.
- 1.80 crore tourists visited J&K in 2022, which is a testimony to the fact that the UT is heading towards peace and stability.
- Today, 32,000 children from other parts of the country are studying in J&K.
Challenges to policing have now drastically transformed
- Earlier, policing had to tackle more of a geographical p roblems like terrorism and unrest in J&K, Left-wing extremism and unrest in the northeast etc.
- However, it has now transformed to countering new-age thematic threats of cyber security and data theft.
- The problems also have become multidimensional as narco terror and fourth-generation war have chipped in.
- The goal of Fourth generation warfare (4GW) is collapsing the enemy internally rather than physically destroying him.
- Targets will include such things as the population's support for the war and the enemy's culture.
- Fourth generation warfare seems likely to be widely dispersed and largely undefined; the distinction between war and peace will be blurred to the vanishing point.
- It will be non-linear, possibly to the point of having no definable battlefields or fronts.
- In other words, 4GW is conflict characterized by a blurring of the lines between war and politics, combatants and civilians.
Peace returning to Northeast
- In the Northeast, nine different types of groups have surrendered and signed peace accords and have returned to the mainstream.
- More than 9,000 insurgents have handed over weapons to authorities.
- In view of nearly 42% decline in violence, Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) had been withdrawn from over 30% of the areas in the region.
Massive success in taming left wing terror
- India has attained massive success in taming left wing terror.
- In 2010, there were 96 terror-affected districts and now there are only 46.
- In Left wing extremism-affected regions also, violence witnessed 40-60 per cent decline.
Power of India’s cooperative federalism
- Recently, police in all States have cooperated to nab “Popular Front of India (PFI) culprits.
- In September 2022, the government banned the PFI - a controversial Muslim group - for five years for allegedly having links with terror groups.
- Over 150 PFI members were arrested in 11 states, UTs.
- It showed the power of India’s cooperative federalism and maturity as a democracy.
Q1) What is Maoism?
Maoism is a form of communism developed by Mao Tse Tung. It is a doctrine to capture State power through a combination of armed insurgency, mass mobilization and strategic alliances.
Q2) What is Popular Front of India (PFI)?
Popular Front of India (PFI) is an Islamic political organisation in India, that engages in a radical and exclusivist style of Muslim minority politics.The PFI was established in 2007 after the merger of three influential Muslim groups – the National Democratic Front (NDF) in Kerala, the Karnataka Forum for Dignity in Karnataka, and the Manitha Neethi Pasarai in Tamil Nadu.
Source: ‘J&K on path of peace, stability’: Shah praises security agencies | PIB | The Hindu | Times of India