<p>To ensure better security and counter all kinds of attacks, the State government will create a District Special Weapons and Tactics Team (D-SWAT) comprising 24 personnel in each district.<br /><br />The team members will be trained on a par with the National Security Guards.<br /><br />The State police on Tuesday launched a training programme for D-SWAT members, which was inaugurated by Home Minister K J George at the Centre for Counter-Terrorism (CCT).<br /><br />The training-of-trainers programmes will be conducted for personnel in the rank of probationary sub-inspectors from the Karnataka State Industrial Security Force, DySPs of the State police and staff from various security forces at CCT. <br /><br />The training will be conducted by the Garuda Force launched in 2011 to provide immediate backup support for sensitive events such as Mysore Dasara, international cricket matches and others.<br /><br />George said D-SWAT was being created to safeguard society and protect civilians from attacks. The force will help in combating emergency situations.</p>.<p> D-SWAT will be monitored by the District Superintendent of Police. <br /><br />It will be equipped with advanced weapons.</p>.<p>It will undergo rigorous commando training at CCT for over three months, and trained to be physically and mentally fit to tackle any kind of dangerous situation.<br /><br />The first 42 men, picked up from various districts and other forces, will be trained under the training-for-trainers programme.<br /><br />Thereafter, they will take charge of D-SWAT teams in their respective districts, an official said. <br /><br />“We are aiming at training 2,000 personnel in two years,” he said.<br /><br />George said the government was also planning to set up a disaster management centre in the heart of the City. <br /><br />This will be linked to all district and taluk headquarters to help officials sit in a single room and take stock of a prevailing emergency situation, he said.<br /><br />Internal Security Division officials said another campus was under construction for the Garuda Force and the CCT at Agara on Kanakapura Road in Bangalore.</p>
<p>To ensure better security and counter all kinds of attacks, the State government will create a District Special Weapons and Tactics Team (D-SWAT) comprising 24 personnel in each district.<br /><br />The team members will be trained on a par with the National Security Guards.<br /><br />The State police on Tuesday launched a training programme for D-SWAT members, which was inaugurated by Home Minister K J George at the Centre for Counter-Terrorism (CCT).<br /><br />The training-of-trainers programmes will be conducted for personnel in the rank of probationary sub-inspectors from the Karnataka State Industrial Security Force, DySPs of the State police and staff from various security forces at CCT. <br /><br />The training will be conducted by the Garuda Force launched in 2011 to provide immediate backup support for sensitive events such as Mysore Dasara, international cricket matches and others.<br /><br />George said D-SWAT was being created to safeguard society and protect civilians from attacks. The force will help in combating emergency situations.</p>.<p> D-SWAT will be monitored by the District Superintendent of Police. <br /><br />It will be equipped with advanced weapons.</p>.<p>It will undergo rigorous commando training at CCT for over three months, and trained to be physically and mentally fit to tackle any kind of dangerous situation.<br /><br />The first 42 men, picked up from various districts and other forces, will be trained under the training-for-trainers programme.<br /><br />Thereafter, they will take charge of D-SWAT teams in their respective districts, an official said. <br /><br />“We are aiming at training 2,000 personnel in two years,” he said.<br /><br />George said the government was also planning to set up a disaster management centre in the heart of the City. <br /><br />This will be linked to all district and taluk headquarters to help officials sit in a single room and take stock of a prevailing emergency situation, he said.<br /><br />Internal Security Division officials said another campus was under construction for the Garuda Force and the CCT at Agara on Kanakapura Road in Bangalore.</p>
