Lucknow: A wide range of issues including cyber crime, data governance, counter terrorism challenges, Left Wing Extremism, emerging trends in narcotics trafficking, prison reforms and best policing practices among others will come up for discussion during 56th DGP conference, beginning November 20, 2021, here. The two-day long conference is to be held at Police Headquarters here which will be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The conference will be held in hybrid format. DGP of States/UTs and Heads of Central Armed Police Forces and Central Police Organizations will attend the conference physically at the venue here, while the remaining invitees will participate virtually from 37 different locations at IB and SIB Headquarters.
Since 2014, the Prime Minister has taken a keen interest in the DGP conference. Unlike the symbolic presence earlier, he makes it a point to attend all sessions of the conference and encourages free and informal discussions that provide an opportunity to top police officials to directly brief the Prime Minister on key policing and internal security issues affecting the country.
As per the vision of the Prime Minister, since 2014, the annual conferences, which used to be customarily organised in Delhi, have been organised outside the national capital, with an exception of the year 2020 when the conference was held virtually. The conference was organised at Guwahati in 2014; Dhordo, Rann of Kutch in 2015; National Police Academy, Hyderabad in 2016; BSF Academy, Tekanpur in 2017; Kevadiya in 2018; and IISER, Pune in 2019.
Many decorated IPS officers will be in Lucknow to attend the conference. The list includes 68 officers of the rank of DGs including Andhra Pradesh DGP Gautam Sawang who was recently awarded as the best DGP in the country by SKOCH; DG National Security Guard (NSG) MA Ganapathy, a 1986 batch IPS officer, credited for designing the country’s first octagonal police station to help combat Naxal menace, DG National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) Atul Karwal of 1988 batch, who has scaled the Mount Everest, and DGP Telangana, MM Reddy of 1986 batch, credited with introduction of first complete CCTV surveillance during his stint in Hyderabad, who will be participating in the conference. /BI/
