Srinagar: A Joint Capacity Building Programme on digital/technical investigation aspects related to UAPA cases being conducted on the directions of Director General of Police J&K for Jammu and Kashmir Police officers, Prosecution officers with National Investigation Agency (NIA) commenced at Police Headquarters here on Monday. The Additional Director General of Police, Armed/IR Jammu and Kashmir, Shri S. J. M. Gillani was the chief guest at the inaugural session.
ADGP (Coord/Hqrs) PHQ, M K Sinha, ADGP Kashmir Zone, Vijay Kumar, IGP (CIV/Hqrs) PHQ, B.S Tuti, District and Session Judge NIA Court Srinagar, Sandeep Gandotra, DIG (Trainings) PHQ, Imtiaz Ismail Parray, DIG IRP Kashmir, Abdul Qayoom, SSP NIA J&K Rajiv Omparkesh Pande, SSP Budgam, AIsG of PHQ, visiting NIA faculty team and other gazetted officers of PHQ were present on the occasion. Besides, officers from six police training institutes attended the workshop online.
ADGP Armed, J&K, S. J. M. Gillani while speaking on the occasion said that it is an honour and privilege for him to be part of this all important session. “NIA which is a recent organization has emerged one of the leading investigation agency of the country,” he said. He added that first DG NIA R.V. Raju was from J&K Police cadre which is a great pride for the J&K Police as an organization. He said that even today a huge number of officers from J&K Police are working in NIA and other investigation agencies of the country.
The ADGP Armed said that crimes today are committed differently from the way they were committed 25 years back adding that today in most of the cases that are committed a lead actor need not be at the scene of crime which was out of imagination a few years back.
On behalf of DGP J&K, ADGP (Coord/Hqrs) PHQ, M K Sinha welcomed NIA faculty, senior police officers and trainee officers in the Capacity Building Training Programme. He said that only a continuous and constant up-gradation of skills is going to make them relevant in investigation and to the course of justice at large.
ADGP Kashmir Zone, Vijay Kumar while speaking on the occasion said that during the past few years a large number of UAPA cases were registered and disposed of successfully and added that yet there is an imperative need to improve conviction rate of such cases which he said would get better only with quality investigation.
IGP (CIV/Hqrs) PHQ, B S Tuti while delivering the keynote address said that the two days training programme is aimed to enhance digital investigative operatives related to UAPA cases during which eight to nine sessions are being conducted.
SSP NIA Rajiv Omparkesh Pande said that this is the 8th training programme organised with the J&K Police and added that over 750 officers of JKP were benefited through these training programmes.
AIG Policy & Training PHQ JS Johar conducted the proceedings of the inaugural function. 118 gazetted & non gazetted investigating officers from Jammu/Kashmir Zone, SIA, SIU and Prosecution wing are participating in the training programme.

KR Desk