Crime prevention
India Chairs 68th Commission on Narcotic Drugs
India has been selected to chair the 68th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND). This announcement was made by the Indian Embassy in Austria. Ambassador Shambhu S Kumaran has officially assumed the role of Chairman, which marks India’s ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2024
Category: International / World Current Affairs
NATGRID will come into operation by 2020
The ambitious National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) project will came into effect from December 31, 2020. It will enable multiple security and intelligence agencies a database related to immigration entry or exit, banking and telephone details etc from a common platform. ..
Status of Policing in India Report 2019
Based on a sample survey of 11,834 police personnel across 105 locations in 21 States, the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies has published the “Status of Policing in India Report 2019.” What does the Report Say? Extra Hours ..
Social Security Code for New India
The government is in the process of formulating the code on social security and welfare for the third time as the trade unions and industry bodies had raised objections to some provisions in the earlier draft. The social security code is ..
Need of Witness Protection Laws
A shocking incident happened in Unnao of Uttar Pradesh wherein at a road accident, a rape survivor’s two aunts died leaving the rape survivor and her lawyer in a critical condition. Consequent to the death of the two individuals, one ..
Odisha government implements Center’s Witness Protection Scheme (WPS)
The Naveen Patnaik led Odisha Government has recently informed the state High Court that it has implemented the Central Government’s Witness Protection Scheme-2018. The aim of the scheme is to ensure that investigation, prosecution and trial of criminal offences are ..
Single police and fire service creates problems in Scotland
In Scotland, the police and the fire services were merged following the Police and Fire Reform in 2013. Bad money management and personnel issues are now creating problems. The Justice Committee report last years said that the issues were predominanlty ..
Thousands of bystanders caught in Toronto
Toronto police officials deployed the controversial stingray surveillance technology over 2 months. They have swept up data from more than 20, 000 bystanders. The police have claimed to use the technology to investigate a 2014 investigation. The investigation was to ..