Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday exhorted the security agencies to dismantle its entire ecosystem and must adopt such a ruthless approach that a new terrorist organisation cannot be formed.
Inaugurating a two-day anti-terror conference organized by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) here, the Home Minister said the Central and State agencies have succeeded in firmly curbing all forms of terrorism in the country in the last 9 years.
“Model Anti-terrorism Structure” should be established under the purview of NIA, the hierarchy, structure, and SoPs of investigation of all anti-terrorism agencies in all the States should be made uniform for better coordination between Central and State agencies, Shah, adding, the NIA and the Intelligence Bureau (IB) to take initiative in this direction.
Noting that the task of NIA, Anti-Terroist Squad (ATS) and Special Task Forces (STFs) should not be limited to investigation but they should also think out of the box and take innovative measures to counter the terrorism.
Shah said that the fight against terrorism requires collaboration from the global level to the grassroots, involving various States within the country, as well as international cooperation.
He said that the number of terrorist incidents in the year 2001 was 6,000, which the government has now reduced to 900 in 2022.
He lauded the NIA for achieving more than 94 percent conviction rate and said more work is needed in this direction. He also asked all the States to take steps to increase the conviction rate.
He also stressed that all the agencies of the Center and the State should make multidimensional and Artificial Intelligence-based use of the database, only then will we be successful in the fight against terrorism. “The database should be used for investigation, prosecution, prevention and action and every police station as well as young police officers to make maximum use of the database,” he said.
Referring to the recent operations against drug cartels, Shah said that with the cooperation of the Central and State Governments, major successes have been achieved in the fight against drugs.
“These achievements include Operation Samudragupta, conducted this year under the leadership of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), during which narcotics worth more than Rs 12,000 crore were seized simultaneously.
Apart from this, 10 lakh kilograms of drugs have also been disposed of,” he said.
The agencies participating in the conference should make five actionable points in every session of the two-day conference and send them to the Union Home Ministry for further action.