U.S. to help India face new security challenges

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http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/us-to-help-india-face-new-security-challenges/article5035558.ece

By SANDEEP JOSHI
The Hindu
NEW DELHI
August 18, 2013

Washington has agreed to throw open its specialised agencies for advanced 
training in a range of skills

Three months after the U.S.-India Homeland Security Dialogue in 
Washington, India is all set to send its officers to various agencies 
across American federal organisations to sharpen their skills and acquire 
new ones to fight terrorism.

Indian officials and security officers would soon be visiting the U.S. for 
training in an array of courses — from cyber security, megacity policing 
and forensics, to critical infrastructure protection, financial terrorism 
and anti-terrorism intelligence.

The U.S. government has agreed to give Indian officers access to its 
specialised agencies under the Department of Homeland Security, 
particularly the Georgia-headquartered Federal Law Enforcement Training 
Centres (FLETC), to help them deal with the changing face of international 
terrorism.

“The dialogue between Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and U.S. 
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano in Washington in May this 
year paved the way for this cooperation... Through these specialised 
training programmes, India will gradually build an army of experts who can 
handle new technologies and mechanism to deal with various kinds of 
terrorism and anti-national activities,” a senior Home Ministry official 
told The Hindu.

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