Southern DGPs meet opens tomorrow

Hyderabad, Aug 10 : Andhra Pradesh Home Minister Sabitha Indra Reddy will open the third southern states Directors General of Police (DGPs) meet here tomorrow.The DGPs of Southern States -Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Puducherry-will be attending the meet with their teams of CID and Intelligence Officers. The purpose of the conference is to exchange information and extend mutual co-operation among 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 viz., property crime, bodily crime, white collar crime, cyber crime, fake Indian currency notes circulation crimes, narcotics and psychotropic substances crime. marine policing issues pertaining to coordination with Coast Guard and other agencies will also be discussed along with the best practices in prevention, detection and prosecution in organised crimes.The conference is also intended to suggest/exchange information on ways and means to tackle left wing extremism, fundamentalism and terrorism apart from busting various organised crime modules and also to keep police agencies informed in tracing out hard core criminal gangs and executing non-bailable warrants (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 Gulf and South East Asian Nations will also be discussed in the day-long conference. The measures to effectively tackle the Video Piracy, Narcotic Drugs, fake Indian currencies from source to destination will be debated at length. Gangs of dacoits, robberers and offenders operating in diverting attention across the border and such operational information will also be discussed. The conference will address all the above issues for which it is being held and enable southern states to work together to bring the offenders of all hues to justice.Prior to this, the first Conference was held by Tamil Nadu in August 2008 and by Kerala in August 2009, according to an official release here today.
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