Srinagar: A Joint Capacity Building Programme on digital/technical investigation aspects related to UAPA cases being conducted on the directions of the Director General of Police J&K for Jammu and Kashmir Police officers, Prosecution officers with National Investigation Agency (NIA) commenced at Police Headquarters here today.
The Additional Director General of Police, Armed/IR Jammu and Kashmir, S. J. M. Gillani was the chief guest at the inaugural session.
ADGP (Coord/Hqrs) PHQ, M K Sinha, ADGP Kashmir Zone, Vijay Kumar, IGP (CIV/Hqrs) PHQ, B.S Tuti, Hon’ble District and Session Judge NIA Court Srinagar, Sandeep Gandotra, DIG (Trainings) PHQ, Imtiaz Ismail Parray, DIG IRP Kashmir, Abdul Qayoom, SSP NIA J&K Rajiv Omparkesh Pande, SSP Budgam, AIsG of PHQ, visiting NIA faculty team and other gazetted officers of PHQ were present on the occasion. Besides, officers from six police training institutes attended the workshop online.
ADGP Armed, J&K, S. J. M. Gillani while speaking on the occasion said that it is an honour and privilege for him to be part of this all-important session. He said that NIA which is a recent organization has emerged as one of the leading investigation agencies of the country and added that the first DG NIA R.V. Raju was from the J&K Police cadre which is a great pride for the J&K Police as an organization. He said that even today a huge number of officers from J&K Police are working in NIA and other investigation agencies of the country.
On behalf of DGP J&K, ADGP (Coord/Hqrs) PHQ, M K Sinha welcomed NIA faculty, senior police officers and trainee officers to the Capacity Building Training Programme. He said that only a continuous and constant up-gradation of skills is going to make them relevant in investigation and to the course of justice at large.
He said that there are unlimited resource materials on the internet and emphasized upon officers to keep focus on learning new things and upgrading their knowledge.
He advised them to take full advantage of the training programme and extract maximum from the lectures of the technical expert team of NIA. He thanked the NIA DGP and Hqrs for supporting and providing the expert faculty for the training programme.
ADGP Kashmir Zone, Vijay Kumar while speaking on the occasion said that during the past few years, a large number of UAPA cases were registered and disposed of successfully and added that yet there is an imperative need to improve the conviction rate of such cases which he said would get better only with quality investigation.
He said that organizing these capacity-building programmes with NIA will help officers of SIA & SIU besides IOs of district Police to enhance their investigating skills as has been the case in the past training programmes. He thanked the NIA team for supporting J&K Police in organising these training programmes from time to time for the last two years now.
