NEW DELHI, Nov 19: In keeping with the tradition he has started, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with Home Minister Amit Shah and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval on Saturday attended the two-day 56th Conference of Director Generals of Police (DGP) and Inspector Generals of Police (IGP) of various states at the Police Headquarters in Lucknow.
The conference is being held in a hybrid format. Top Cops or DGPs of States and Union Territories, as well as Heads of Central Armed Police Forces and Central Police Organisations are attending the conference physically at the venue in Lucknow, while the remaining invitees are participating virtually from 37 different locations at IB/SIB Headquarters.
The agenda of the conference included a wide range of issues including Cyber Crime, Data Governance, Counter-Terrorism challenges, Left Wing Extremism, Emerging Trends in Narcotics trafficking and Prison Reforms among others.
Since 2014, the Prime Minister has taken a keen interest in the DGPs’ conference. Unlike the symbolic presence earlier, PM Modi makes it a point to attend all sessions of the conference and encourages free and informal discussions that provide an opportunity to top police officials to directly brief the Prime Minister on key policing and internal security issues affecting the country.
As per the vision of the Prime Minister, since 2014, the annual conferences, which used to be customarily organised in Delhi, have been organised outside Delhi with an exception of the year 2020 when the conference was held virtually. The conference has been organised at Guwahati in 2014; Dhordo, Rann of Kutch in 2015; National Police Academy, Hyderabad in 2016; BSF Academy, Tekanpur in 2017; Kevadiya in 2018; and IISER, Pune in 2019.
(Manas Dasgupta)