PM, Sushilkumar Shinde to address three-day conference of top police brass

New Delhi: A three-day conference of the country's top police brass will be held here from tomorrow to discuss key security issues including threat to hinterland from terror groups like Lashker-e-Taiba and Indian Mujahideen and use of social media in fanning communal riots.

The meet will be inaugurated by Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde tomorrow and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will address the gathering on November 23 where he will release a commemorative stamp marking the completion of 125 years of the Intelligence Bureau.

The annual conference, organised by the Intelligence Bureau, will lay special emphasis on Naxal-dominated areas, focusing on making police stations "nerve centres" of all law and order activities including gathering of local intelligence.

"The recent arrest of some members of terror outfits such as Lashker-e-Taiba and Indian Mujahideen and the disclosures made by them have reaffirmed our apprehensions that Indian hinterland remains on the crosshairs of inimical forces," officials said.

During the conference, the issues of improving generation of intelligence and their quick dissemination through the platform of Multi Agency Centre and its Subsidiary Multi Agency Centres would be taken up, besides gearing up the functioning of state intelligence units.

The officials said misuse of social media to fan violence has been witnessed frequently with the recent riots in Muzaffarnagar being a example.

"The medium is intimately linked with freedom of expression and has become a preferred means of communication for millions of people," they said, adding the conference would deliberate on the ways to ensure that the medium is not put to "invidious use and mechanism to counter it."