The three-day-long annual DGP’s conference to be hosted by the Union Home Ministry will start on December 20 at the site of the tallest statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in Gujarat. Militancy in Jammu & Kashmir, cross-border terrorism and attempts to radicalise youth will top the agenda of the conference inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Issues like clashes due to communal tension, circulation of communally sensitive news and pornographic materials through social media are also expected to be discussed at the three-day meeting, a Union Home Ministry official said.
The top police officers of the country will be closeted for multiple sessions of discussions on issues concerning the country, including militancy in Jammu and Kashmir, cross-border terrorism, attempts to radicalise youth, Naxal menace and the situation in the Northeast, the official said.
The Statue of Unity has been chosen as the venue as the Indian Police Service (IPS) officers have a close association with Patel as their training academy in Hyderabad is named after him, they said. The IPS academy is named Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel National Police Academy. Patel was the country’s first Home Minister and the Home Ministry is the cadre controlling authority of the IPS.
The DGPs and IGPs will be hosted in the ‘tent village’ that is being set up near the statue in Kevadiya village. The Modi Government has been organising this meeting outside the national Capital since it came to power in 2014.
The last four such conferences were held in Guwahati, Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, Hyderabad and Tekanpur in Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior district.