With the spurt in home-grown terror resulting in a spate of bomb blasts across the country, private security agencies plan to offer their services in gathering anti-terror intelligence.
NEW DELHI: With the spurt in home-grown terror resulting in a spate of bomb blasts across the country, private security agencies plan to offer their services in gathering anti-terror intelligence.
Personnel of the 50-lakh-strong private security agencies in the country will submit a proposal on the matter before Union home minister Shivraj Patil during their third annual conference on October 13 and 14 in Bangalore.
Patil has officially confirmed his presence at the meet. During the Bangalore conference - Homeland security, a determined approach -the agencies will stress on foreign models of safety which rely heavily on public involvement in security and safety “bandobast” taking into consideration the “low-intensity home-grown war” witnessed in recent terror attacks. “With increased threat to the internal security in the country, the Homeland security approach has been mooted. The citizen’s involvement has been zero when we see the chronology of the recent terror incidents in the country. We believe ‘each one secure one’ should be the country’s approach now to thwart these incidents,” chairman of the two apex bodies of private security agencies, Kunwar Vikram Singh, said.
The apex bodies — Central Association of Private Security Industry and Association of Private Detectives and Investigators — are in touch with the home ministry and its senior officials. The officials have assured the sector they will take into confidence all stakeholders for the sake of national security, they said. “On our part, we will ask the government to give us responsibility of intelligence gathering,” Singh said.
In view of the recent arguments to involve private security personnel in the information gathering, minister of state (law and justice) K Venkatapathy has also agreed to initiate necessary changes in the Private Security Agencies Regulation Act, 2005.
The private security industry is buoyed by its recent success in striking a deal with the Rajasthan government on training private security personnel to gather anti-terror intelligence.
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