POLICE CONFERENCE - POLITY
News: PM
Modi to open annual police conference in Delhi on January 20
What's in the news?
● The
annual police conference organized by
the Intelligence Bureau (IB) for the year 2022 will be held in Delhi from January 20-22.
● Like
the eight such conferences in the past, which are attended by top police
officers of the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be attending all the
sessions at the three-day conference.
Key takeaways:
● The
conference is organized every year
to discuss various internal security challenges and policing matters that could
not be held in the calendar year 2022.
● The Directors-General of
Police of all States and the Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) will participate
in the conference.
● The
last conferences were held in Guwahati, Rann of Kutch (Gujarat), Hyderabad,
Tekanpur, Kevadia (Gujarat), Pune and Lucknow.
● Over
the years, the format of the conference has undergone significant changes with
various core groups comprising police officers holding discussions on key
internal security issues in the run-up to the conference.
● In
2021, the officers were requested to submit papers on contemporary security
issues to be discussed at the conference.