Monday, 09 OCTOBER 2023  | PNS | DEHRADUN

The special director of the Intelligence Bureau on Sunday said that Social Media chat rooms are being used to recruit terrorists. He stated this  while speaking on the second day of the 49th All India Police Science Congress (AIPSC) held at the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) auditorium in Dehradun. He also discussed the impact of social media on protests affecting law and order and police in the sixth session of AIPSC. The 49th AIPSC started on Saturday under the aegis of the Central government’s agency Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD) at the Forest Research Institute (FRI) on the theme of Policing in Amrit Kaal. According to the officials, the IB  special director also gave a presentation on the challenges of the social media platform besides participating in the discussions on topics like social media and internal security. He said that the anti-social elements are using social media to promote separatism and that social media chat rooms are being used to recruit terrorists, informed officials. He also talked about points necessary to fight such challenges in the country. The senior IB official also said that social media is being used as a medium to influence the internal security of the country and to spread the agenda set by foreign powers for their own interests, as per the officials. Also, the Uttarakhand director general of police Ashok Kumar visited the police tech exhibition along with all the delegates before the commencement of the event on Sunday. The stalls of equipment related to forensic science, drones, robotics, smart weapons, IP cameras, telescopes, wireless and cyber security were set up in the tech exhibition. The State police, the Cyber Crime Police Station and the State Disaster Response Force had also set up stalls in the exhibition. While visiting the exhibition, the DGP talked about including smart weapons and other equipment manufactured with high and indigenous technology in police modernisation under the Make in India scheme. The authorities and experts mainly talked about the six selected themes for discussion in the 49th AIPSC which were Policing in the 5G Era, Narcotics: A Game Changing Approach, Coordination between Police and Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFS), National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Internal Security and Social Media Challenges, and Community Policing.