SHILLONG, JUNE 24: The two days conference of the NE states police and central police organisations held in Shillong seems to have concluded without any major security decision taken, especially on issues that are likely to paint the security agencies of the region in bad shade.
The 23rd conference of DGPs/IGPs and Central Police Organisations (CPOs) heads of north eastern states held at Meghalaya police headquarters apparently was a non-starter as internal conflicts and interests put a spanner from taking decisive decision on internal security that could have bearing on the fight against anti-insurgency in the region.
The refusal of the police to allow the media to cover the conference is now seen as an attempt to stop the flow of information that could have damaged the high profile image of the meeting as no tangible decisions were taken on internal security in the region.
As north eastern region is seen as vulnerable to internal and external threats, the failure of the conference to provide a hint of what it decided to thwart any attempt to destablise the region only suggest that the meeting was inconclusive.
As the meeting was also attended by DoNER secretary Navin Verma and other officers from other related union ministries besides the heads of the BSF, Assam Rifles, Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau (SIB) and ITBP, it was expected that the conference would take significant security related decisions. However as there was no communication of what transpired during the conference it can safely be concluded that those attending the meeting failed to take any significant decision.
The conference held under the aegis of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) was also slated to discuss inter-departmental coordination and International border management and other issues.
Central intelligence forces stationed in the NE region are visibly unhappy with the state polices of different north eastern states as the latter conveniently refuse to share intelligence inputs giving the much hyped coordination between the state and central security forces a toss.
In what could only be described as a tit-for-tat situation, central intelligence agencies too treat the state police with the same yardstick as it also fails to share inputs with its state counterparts.
It appeared there were very little or no efforts from those attending the meeting to rectify this lacunae and this is likely to have a rippling effect to the entire gamut of campaign against militancy in the north eastern region.
With very little or no coordination between the state and central security forces, the inter border and inter-states arms smuggling and the alleged involvement and abetment of security personnel seems to have been consigned to backburner as nothing credible were discussed.
Therefore, the conference in a sense could be termed as a non-starter because if this issue of arms smuggling and nexus between arms smugglers and security personnel are sidelines, it leaves a huge gap in the fight to content militancy in the areas.
The inter-state highway robbery is another ticklish issue that the conference decided to completely blackout from its agenda for discussion. Critics now concludes that the topic would have been a source of huge embarrassment for the state polices as some of its own personnel are allegedly hand in gloves with the highway robbers thus taking a cut of the stolen money.
Another issue that the conference conveniently skipped to discuss is the ‘day light robbery’ by the police who often extorts money from truck drivers across the national highways in all the north eastern states. Such discussion would have opened a Pandora box for the state security agencies and, therefore, not discussing the issue during the conference only provide the most convenient escape route to the police high-ups.-By Our Reporter
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