Hyderabad: India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval on Saturday said that in order to make India powerful, the police should manage internal security.
Addressing probationers at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy, Mr Doval told them to equip themselves to tackle the new generation warfare with an invisible enemy. “Now, it is a war of policemen since civil society is mostly affected. If you win, the country wins. Many countries are collapsing with internal security problems. Only the police can fight and win the battle,” he said after reviewing the passing-out parade.
The former super spy said: “You cannot have a great powerful country if you cannot manage its internal security. It is only policemen who can fight this battle and win it. Train yourself to become powerful intellectually, emotionally and spiritually, as strong as possible.”
He said that after different wars, 37 countries had failed or had degraded themselves. “Nearly 28 of those countries degraded themselves or became failures because they could not manage their internal security,” he said. He also cited the example of Pakistan and the erstwhile Soviet Union.
Mr Doval said “You have to master technology. The biggest challenge will be to win this fourth generation warfare, whether it is with organised crime, terrorism, insurgency or foreign powers trying to meddle in your internal affairs, you have got to be demonstrative,” he said.
“When you retire probably 35 to 37 years from now, this will be an entirely new India. This will be an India, which will be a global power and it will be a big and great India, which will have great economic challenges, great economic opportunities and which will have much greater population, more opportunities and more problems,” he added.
In all, 156 officer trainees including 28 women officers, six officers from the Royal Bhutan Police, four from the Maldives Police Service and four from Nepal Police completed 46 weeks of rigorous training at the NPA.
