Imphal, August 24 2010: Manipur DGP, Y Joykumar left Imphal today to take part in the three-day conference of DGPs and IGPs to be held at New Delhi with the main agenda of chalking out measures to tackle the latest Kashmir unrest, Maoist violence, strengthening internal security and filling vacancies in the state police forces.

State DGP is among the police chiefs of states in the country to participate in the three-day annual conference of state police chiefs in New Delhi beginning tomorrow (August 25) being organised by the Intelligence Bureau, official source here said.

The meeting, which comes close on the heels of a chief ministers' conference on internal security and other related issues last month, will be addressed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and inaugurated by Home Minister P Chidambaram at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi.

The conference aims to provide an interactive platform for senior police professionals and security administrators in the country to freely discuss and debate diverse national security-related issues as also the various operational, infrastructural and welfare-related problems faced by the police in India.

Its deliberations include formulation and sharing of professional practices and processes in tackling challenges relating to crime control and law and order management besides internal security threats such as terrorism, insurgency, left wing extremism, espionage and organized crime, agency reports said.

One of the main agenda of the conference will be methodically expanding its spheres of influence into the traditionally unstable regions of the country's troubled Northeast which is considered as India's 'gravest internal security threat'.

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reports of the South Asian Intelligence Review had observed that the Communist Party of India � Maoist (CPI-Maoist), under a strategy to rope in sub-national armed groups in the country's 'periphery', is widening its campaign for a pan-Indian consolidation of violent anti-state movements.

As the focus of India's earliest and multiple insurrections, most of which are now degraded, the Northeast frontier constitutes a strategic space for Left Wing Extremist (LWE) expansion.

At the first 'Unity Congress' after its formation in September 2004, the CPI-Maoist declared its sympathy and support to insurgencies by 'various nationalities', including those in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) , Assam, Manipur and Nagaland, declaring: "This Congress reaffirms its whole-hearted support to all these nationality movements and their right to self-determination, including the right to secession" .

The Unity Congress "unequivocally" supported the "right of self-determination of all the oppressed nationalities, including their right to secede from the autocratic Indian State." Indicating an intention to form closer alliances with various insurgent groups, the Congress noted further, "it may be necessary to form a separate organization to take up the nationality issue, and we should form such organizations in accordance with the concrete situation" .

In a circular issued in May 2010, the Intelligence Bureau (IB) confirmed the LWE's unfolding plans to reach out to other terrorist and separatist groups in the country, including the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) in Assam and the Hurriyat Conference in J&K.An unnamed official clarified, "Though the intelligence inputs don't suggest any strategic alliance, the Maoists have started corresponding with them" .

The CPI-Maoist's Eastern Regional Bureau (ERB) has been entrusted with the task of establishing a foothold in the Northeast.

The ERB had initially been entrusted with the responsibility of launching operations in the States of Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and parts of Orissa.

On the other hand, according to home ministry data, 209 security men and 325 civilians have been killed in over 1,100 attacks perpetrated by Maoists this year alone.

The prime minister has repeatedly described the Maoists as the "biggest" internal security threat.

The agenda of the police chiefs conference also includes presentations on important policing issues like security arrangements planned for the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

Measures adopted to tighten security along the 7,200 km-long coastline will also be reviewed.

At the July 14 conference of chief ministers, Manmohan Singh had laid emphasis on revisiting the anti-insurgency strategy.

The meeting had decided to form unified commands in the four Maoist-affected states - Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa and West Bengal - by creating a unified command in each and also an extensive Rs 1,750 crore infrastructure package to counter the Leftist rebels.

Chidambaram had assured the states that the central government would assist them in deploying central paramilitary forces, sharing intelligence, funding the modernization of police forces and providing logistics and other support, reports say.

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