THIS IS HOW WE BEGAN IN 2007

Apart from areas afflicted with terrorist violence for long, the new theatre of operation have been reported from Brazil, Algeria, Philippines and Athens (Greece). Pakistan came into glare of terrorist violence of late. Russia has declared a terrorist alert at defence installations and transport networks across the country. More significantly, the British Army has reported on terrorist resorting to Google Earth Internet tool to pinpoint their attacks. Japanese have developed new technology to use radio waves to detect explosives.

The month of January did not augur well for security and intelligence fraternity in India. While the Left extremists continued their attacks, the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) suddenly upped their operations, specially targeting non-Assamese Hindi-speaking population asking them to quit the State of Assam.

Private Security Industry in the State of North Carolina (United States) was invested with police powers, apparently in appreciation of the enormity of tasks before the law enforcement agencies. Such trend, it is reported, is likely to continue.

The big news in Nepal was that new Constitution has been approved and the rebel Maoists are now participating in Nepal’s Parliament.

And if one will be interested, the world’s smallest country, Sealand located in the North Sea is up for sale. But, before you proceed further, one must pass the Test of Three put forward by the wise man of the past Socrates. And, please take time to read the story on “A Bereaved Cop’s non-penal measure”. May like to read these and many other interesting stories in the General Information File.

D. C. Nath, IPS (Retd.)
Former Special Director, IB (MHA), Govt. of India,
Executive President & CEO,
International Institute of Security and Safety Management,
New Delhi, India.