City Hosts High-Level DGP Conference

Home Minister Sabitha Indra Reddy will inaugurate the 3rd Southern States Directors General of Police Conference, at Jubilee Hall on Wednesday.

The DGPs of southern states, namely Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Puducherry, will be attending with their teams of CID and Intelligence Officers. The first conference was held by Tamil Nadu in Aug 2008, and by Kerala in Aug 2009.

The purpose of the conference is to exchange information and extend mutual co-operation among the police of the southern states.

This conference would provide a common platform, enabling member State Police Departments on the matters of exchanging information and intelligence relating to various Traditional and Special Crimes - including Property Crime, Bodily Crime, White Collar Crime, Cyber Crime, Fake Indian Currency Notes circulation Crimes, Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Crime, and Marine Policing issues.

Best practices in prevention, detection and prosecution in organized crimes will also be discussed.

The conference is also intended to facilitate the exchange of information on ways and means to tackle left-wing extremism, fundamentalism and terrorism, apart from busting various organized crime modules, and also to keep police agencies informed in tracing out hard-core criminal gangs and executing NBWs on inter-state criminals.

Several other subjects, such as Video Piracy, Anti-Human Trafficking (AHT) and illegal immigration networks operated by unscrupulous elements to the Gulf and South-East Asian Nations, will also be discussed in the day-long conference.

Gangs of dacoits, robbers and offenders operating in diverting attention across the border, and other such operational information, will also be discussed.

Courtesy: INN