Police Academy Udhampur organizes course on ‘Terrorism & Counter Terrorism’

Rajesh Kumar, Director Sher-i-Kashmir Police Academy Udhampur addressing participants of the course on ‘Terrorism & Counter Terrorism’.
Rajesh Kumar, Director Sher-i-Kashmir Police Academy Udhampur addressing participants of the course on ‘Terrorism & Counter Terrorism’.

Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Apr 6: Police Academy Udhampur organized a three days course on “Terrorism and Counter Terrorism” for officers of the rank from Inspectors to SSPs, which concluded here today.
The course was designed under the guidance of Director Sher-i-Kashmir Police Academy Udhampur, Rajesh Kumar, IGP.
The basic objective behind this course was to make police officers well equipped and aware about the various aspects of terrorism and counter terrorism.
The course in which 28 officers of J&K police participated was inaugurated by Rajesh Kumar.
During the course, eminent speakers including Rajesh Kumar, Nitish Kumar DIG South Kashmir Range; Surinder Gupta, DIG Udhampur-Reasi Range; Mubasir Latifi, SSP Crime Jammu; Dr Haseeb Moughal SSP AIG welfare, PHQ;  Sargun Shukla, Additional SP Bhaderwah; Dr Kulwant Singh Professor of Law, Jammu University; Ravinder Kumar Rao, DDP Assistant Director (Indoor) SKPA, Kamal Sharma, CPO CLI, SKPA and Sparsh Sharma, Scholar SMVD University Katra delivered lectures and held interactions with the participating officers on the assigned topics. The topics included Role of J&K Police in countering terrorism, Preparedness to take on challenges, Co-ordination amongst different security agencies, legal provisions to deal with the problem of terrorism, handling of investigation of terrorism related cases, Human Rights related issues in conflict areas, use of social media- Fighting and countering terrorism, handling anti-militancy operations and law and order- new challenges for security agencies, Terror funding, Tactical Preparedness to deal terrorism and insurgency, Juvenile Participation in terrorism and new dimensions in Cyber terrorism.
The valedictory moments of course were graced by Shiv Kumar Sharma SSP, Assistant Director (Admn.) SKPA Udhampur.
The course was coordinated by Pankaj Sethi, Sr.PO and Raqeesh Akram, Inspector.