Team Herald
NEW DELHI: Concerned over a report on various intelligence agencies like the Intelligence Bureau, the military intelligence, the state police intelligence and the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) working at cross-purposes in Jammu and Kashmir, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has called for all to share their intelligence by setting up a coordination mechanism across the country in the form of two teams.
It noted how proper coordination between all the security and intelligence agencies had resulted in locating and finishing many terrorists holed up in Jammu and Kashmir and that kind of coordination can certainly help in controlling crimes and improving the law and order situation in other states.
In a directive issued to the Home Ministry, IB, heads of state police and the central armed police forces as well as to the Indian Army, the PMO has suggested them “to initiate action in a time-bound manner and communicate the action taken in this regard.”
It wants formation of the working groups of five to seven officers of various agencies to discuss their individual intelligence gathering mechanism and decide how the intelligence can be quickly shared for effective action on the ground. It stressed the need “to develop expertise in particular field in an institutional manner” by holding regular meetings of thee groups round the year.
The second group suggested by the PMO is of the officers in the age group of 40 and 45 with the responsibility to percolate the expertise developed in an institutional manner on the intelligence sharing percolates to the lower level officers. This group has to focus solely on action on the ground.
The PMO has stressed that the Prime Minister disapproves various intelligence and security agencies working in isolation as the urgency is for “prompt sharing of knowledge, information and technology,” noting that the mutual coordination among the agencies should be a matter of commitment rather than a sheer formality.
