J.N. Choudhury, Director General, National Security Guards (NSG), today underlined the need to strengthen civil police and improve the police-population ratio, which is well below par at present.
Speaking at the sixth edition of FICCI Homeland Security 2014 here, Mr. Choudhury said that technology serves both police and criminals. In the absence of standardized testing centres, the police has not been able to adopt many new technologies that are available in the market. On the other hand, criminals have access to these modern techniques as evidenced by recent attacks that have been witnessed the world over.
He said that India’s homeland security lacked the means to evaluate the new technologies and added that there is a need to built testing facilitates to check the efficiency and effectiveness of technologies.
Mr. Choudhary pointed out that the quality of manpower and training in homeland security do not match up to global standards. Therefore, capacity building and improvement in training standards was imperative.
On the occasion, Mr. Choudhury released the FICCI- EY report titled ‘Homeland Security 2014
The report highlights the need for Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) to urgently deploy appropriate technology to be able to analyze the available data and counter challenges posed by limited resources. LEAs gather a huge amount of data from varied sources such as banks, telecoms, traffic information, social media, criminal records and airlines.
Mr. Sanjay Sahay, IPS, Additional DGP, Police Computer Wing, Karnataka State Police, said that the Indian market has a potential of US$ 9 billion in homeland security. However, disconnect between enforcement agencies and market, is affecting the potential of the sector. The world over many cities are enabled with video analytics and no Indian city is video analytics enabled, which shows lack of use of technology.
Mr. G. K. Pillai, Chair, FICCI Homeland Security Committee, said that the recruitment process of the enforcement agencies should be transparent. He added that Centre and State authorities needed to cooperate with each other more effectively. Civil society also needs to play a more proactive role. The Central and State police forces need to build citizens’ confidence in the system and involve them in resolving issues related to crime and traffic.
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