New Delhi, Jan 22: Germany on Thursday said it was sharing with India its experience in preventing terror strikes following the Mumbai attacks and also dispatching the chief of its elite commando unit GSG-9 to explore ways to train similar forces here.
Germany`s Federal Police chief Joerg Ziercke, who held
discussions with top Indian security officials on developing
infrastructure to counter terrorism, pointed out that his
country had provided vital inputs when India raised the
National Security Guards (NSG) about 20 years back.
Germany has set up Joint Counter Terrorism Center
(JCTC) bringing under one roof its 40 odd security agencies as
also a Joint Internet Analysis Centre (JIAC) in its efforts to
fight terror.
"Counter-terrorism centre and internet analysis centre
were the focal points that we discussed," Ziercke told
reporters here on the discussions he had with NSA M K
Narayanan, Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta, CBI Director Ashwini
Kumar and IB Director Rajiv Mathur.
"We finally came to the conclusion that the basic
principle or premise you must operate on is to have a unified
exchange of information, strategies and planning," he said.
Ziercke will be meeting senior Maharashtra government
and police officials in Mumbai and also visit the site of the
November 26 terror attacks.
He said the chief of Germany`s elite commando force
GSG-9 Olaf Linder is expected to visit India late next month
to discuss ways and means train commando units here.
Bureau Report
