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social gatherings, and the vibrant cultural life ofShillong, amidst occasional visits to spots likeCherapunjee, regarded as the wettest place onearth. This tenure also afforded the much neededopportunity to work in close coordination andcooperation with, not only the State Police/administration, but also with other CentralOrganisations, be they the Armed Forces, diversepara military forces or sister intelligence agencies.My exposure to the North-East was to come invery handy later, particularly in the matter ofpeace dialogues with the Nagas, Bodos and suchother groups, since many of their leaders hadbeen educated at Shillong.My return to lB Headquarters in 1976 witnesseda fragile environment, marked by instabilitiesof different kind amidst the imposition ofEmergency in the country. All these problemskept the I.B. and its officers more than busy andoverworked, but nonetheless imparted themwith once in a lifetime experience. Believe itor not, for almost two years, it was 24×7 callof duty. Another nightmarish experience for mewas the coverage and reporting of the Policeagitations of 1979, which erupted in one Stateafter another, and in different organisations,including their reverberations in the I.B. itself.However, I do cherish this turbulent periodfor an entirely different reason. One of the twoyoung and energetic IPS officers inducted intothe lB and assigned to assist me, was NehchalSandhu, presently the DIB, while the other wasKoshy Koshy, who retired as Director General,BPR&D — for both of them, it was the proverbial‘Baptism by Fire’.In late 1983, on being interviewed personallyby Mr. R.N. Kao (then Security Advisor to thePrime Minister) and found suitable, I moved onas head of SIB, J&K — a tough but scintillatingassignment, that was to last a good four years.SIB, J&K, covering the diverse regions of Kashmir,Jammu and Ladakh, is traditionally regardedas the toughest professional theatre, with itsmyriad concerns and issues, with a blend ofdomestic, national, trans-border and internationaldimensions, marked by an extremely sensitiveand delicate polity. Here, even seemingly trivialissues were prone to flaring up in no time, andas such, the requirements of advance preventiveintelligence were perhaps nowhere greater thanin J&K. On the other hand, was the definite charmof having visited numerous famous places like theHazratbal Shrine, Dal Lake, Gulmarg, Pahalgam,Amarnath, Vaishno Devi, Drass, Zojilla Pass,Kargil, Leh and surrounding Buddhist monasteries,Ponggong Lake, Chushul and above all, literally,the Khardungla Pass (over 19000 feet in altitude).Equally cherished is my personal associationand acquaintance with Governors, B.K. Nehruand Jagmohan, political stalwarts like FarooqAbdullah, Mufti Mohammad Syed, Maulvi IftikharHusain Ansari, Chief Secretary Mir Nasrullah,DGP, Peer Ghulam Hasan Shah, the ‘thinkingGeneral’ M.L. Chibber of Northern Command,and of course, Justice A.S. Anand, who rose tobecome the Chief Justice of India. These namesI have mentioned, just to focus on the extremefinesse and knowledge that a senior lB officerrequires in order to meaningfully interact withsuch bigwigs on a sustained basis. In fact, J&K is apolishing stone that grinds, chisels and fine tunesone’s professional persona, thereby, converting agenerally ‘good’ officer into an ‘outstanding’ one.No wonder today, I understand, there is a waitinglist of lB officers at junior and middle levels alike,volunteering to serve in J&K. As a by productof my posting in J&K, our daughter acquiredproficiency in Urdu language, which she retainstill date, while her mother added a B'Ed degreeof Kashmir University as a suffix to her M.A.(Economics), from Lucknow University.My return to Delhi presented me with severalopportunities to further widen the sweepof my professional expertise. This includedparticipation, during 1988, in the 11 monthlong course at the prestigious National DefenceCollege, in the company of selected officersfrom the Indian Army, Navy, Airforce and CivilServices, besides those from more than a dozenforeign countries including USA, UK, Russia,South Korea and Australia. A unique opportunityto have a closer look at various facets of policingand law-enforcement, and problems connectedthereto came my way in 1991, while acting asthe Secretary of the Annual Conference of theDGPs of States and CPOs. The next decade wasspent on acquiring expertise on a plethora oftopics like socio-ethnic conflicts, Labour, Kisanand Student Movements, Religious and Regionalissues, Human Rights, Security (Departmental,Industrial, Civil Aviation, Communications),84The Indian Police Journal, October - December, 2012, Special Issue
Immigration, Inter-State Disputes, movementsfor creation of new States, problems of North-Eastern region, Maoist terror, etc. This wasreflective of the ‘brick by brick’ and ‘step by step’process of career development in the lB. It isessentially because of their decades long, multifacetedgrooming that quite a few earmarked IBofficers were deputed, in recent years, to headother organisations including R&AW, JIC, CISF,BCAS, SPG, Secretary (Security) and even thosewho reverted back to their State cadres, ended upinvariably as DGPs. It is also no coincidence, thatmore than half a dozen of them were appointed,post retirement, as Governors and successfullyadorned that high office.l.B. also offered me the opportunity to reviewmy association with sports, as I became theSecretary of the All India Police Sports ControlBoard (AIPSCB), that oversees the holding ofroughly a dozen Police tournaments in differentdisciplines every year, with the participation of alarge number of Police sports persons, many ofwhom have represented India with distinction atthe Olympics, Asian Games, SAF Games, etc. Forthe sake of senior officers, an All India Police GolfTournament was introduced in the mid-nineties,and the first one was held in Shillong. Anothermatter of pride is the record haul of medals wonby the Indian Police contingent in successiveWorld Police Games, including those at ColoradoSprings, USA (1993) and Melbourne, Australia(1995), when I was the Team Manager. Yetanother achievement of the Indian Police was thedeputation of about a dozen DIG/Commandantlevel officers from various States/CPOs - all ofthem proven sports administrators - to the AtlantaOlympics (1996). Another notable achievementof the Police forces, particularly the I.T.B.P., is inthe field of mountaineering; a little known fact,however, is that almost a dozen lB mountaineershave successfully made it to the top of MountEverest, and these include the legendary SonamGyatso, Sonam Wangyal and Phu Dorjee. lB’sjourney into mountaineering continues, thanksto the Sonam Gyatso Mountaineering Institute(SGMl), Gangtok.As regards the role of the Director, lntelligenceBureau, a position I was privileged to hold formore than three years (2001-2004), it wouldbe appropriate to mention, that apart from hisonerous responsibilities unto National Security,DIB owes a special duty towards the professionaladvancement and welfare of the entire Policecommunity of the country. It is for this reason thathe is designated as the Chairman of the AnnualConference of DGPs of States/CPOs, All IndiaPolice Sports Control Board, All India PoliceDuty Meet and the All India Police MemorialCommittee, besides being the only Policemember in the committee for empanelment ofIPS officers as Additional DGs/DGs. Of course,DIB’s participation in the meetings of the CabinetCommittee for Security (CCS) and his easy accessto dignitaries like the President of India, PrimeMinister, Union Home Minister and the NationalSecurity Advisor ensures the projection of Policepoint of view on important issues.On this count, successive DIBs have playeda crucial role, starting from the IegendaryB.N. Mullick, a great visionary responsiblefor designing virtually the entire security andpolicing architecture of the country. Shri T.V.Rajeswar was instrumental in the upgradationof Police Chiefs of States/CPO's to the level ofDGs from IGs earlier. To Shri M.K. Narayanangoes the credit for inclusion of the Indian Policein the global community of the InternationalAssociation of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and fororganising its Asia-Pacific Conference, in Delhiin early 1992, with the active participation ofState DGPs and CPO Chiefs - perhaps the firstever International Police Conference in India.Incidentally I was the Organising Secretary of thisConference. From the days of Shri D.C. Pathak,an Indian delegation led by the DIB, regularlyparticipates in the Annual Conference of PoliceChiefs of SAARC.I too did my bit in terms of operationalising theproject relating to the National Police Memorial(which should hopefully be completed soon);setting up of an All India Police Band Institute atCRPF Campus, Manesar, near Gurgaon; initiatingthe proposal for canteen facility to CPOs (sinceformalised); raising the IPS intake through theUPSC to over 80, which had dipped previously toonly 30-35 per year; Reunion Seminars at N.P.A.Hyderabad for IPS officers; and in the matter of thel.P.S. Memorandum to the Vth Pay Commission,which resulted in quicker promotion to IGrank (within 20 years now, as against 25 yearsearlier). Also, not known to many is the behind-The Indian Police Journal, October - December, 2012, Special Issue 85
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The Indian Police JournalOctober -
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From the Director’s DeskNew Delhi
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23rd December, 1887: TheJourney beg
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Helmsmen of the IB during thePre-In
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SHRI V.G. VAIDYA, IPS(MAR 1992 TO J
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perish. Between 1841 and 1848, anot
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As DD (Security), IB, I had occasio
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Dormers Building, ShimlaThe Dormers
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Page 71 and 72: My J&K ExperienceShri R.K. Kapoor,
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