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Winning people's confidence key to handling internal security: Doval

Last Updated 31 October 2015, 19:41 IST

In the wake of a looming threat to India’s internal security, police officers should win the hearts and minds to grapple with the situation, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval said on Saturday.

Addressing the gathering at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy (NPA) after reviewing the passing out parade of the 66th batch of the Indian Police Service officers, Doval said India cannot become a global power if it fails to take care of the internal security. “It is the police that needs to fight and win the battle,” he said.

Doval said wars have become ineffectual in achieving strategic and political objectives even if the enemy were to be weaker, giving the example of the United States’ defeat in Vietnam and the humbling of the erstwhile Soviet Union at Afghanistan.

“This war cannot be won by armies; this is the war of policemen. If you win, the country wins and if you lose, the country loses,” the NSA said, adding that this war was not for land, terrain or a hill but a war for civil society and people.

Inability to handle internal security and win people’s confidence in East Pakistan has broken the neighbouring country, while even a giant of a nation like the Soviet Union broke up for the same reasons.

Out of the 37 countries that degraded or broke up in the post War period, 28 of them disintegrated because of failure in internal security, Doval pointed out. He advised police officers to become intellectually, emotionally and spiritually strong and use the skills and knowledge acquired during their training to win this battle.

Doval asked the probationary officers to become masters of technology to deal with organised crime, saboteurs or meddlesome foreign powers, all of which would be part of future warfare.

The NSA advisor emphasised the need to rapidly adopt technology to effectively dispose their duties from normal policing to crime detection, organised crime, border management and grappling with cyber security and bank frauds.

Nearly 141 probationary officers, including 26 women, completed their 46-week training here. This also included 15 officers from Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives.
 Besides training in jungle survival, weapons and operations, the junior officers were also sensitised towards the problems and issues faced by various sections of the people, NPA Director Aruna Bahuguna said. 

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(Published 31 October 2015, 19:41 IST)

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