India's internal security landscape has changed irrevocably: Home Secy

Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan on Saturday said the conventional internal security landscape, which the country has grappled with over decades, has changed irrevocably. Addressing the Dikshant Parade of the 78th Regular Recruit (RR) batch of IPS at the Sardar Vallabhbhai National Police Academy (SVPNPA) in Hyderabad, he said among internal security challenges, militant naxalism has conclusively come to an end, while North East insurgency is now reduced to miniscule levels."Homegrown terrorism has almost ended, while foreign-inspired terrorism is no longer visible in any other part of the country," he said. The Home Secretary shared Union Home Minister Amit Shah's message emphasising zero-tolerance towards terrorism, time-bound action, and improved intelligence coordination.
"The young officers have an important role to play in securing borders through the Centre's Smart Border Initiative, which involves modern techniques, integrated surveillance, digital systems and better coordination among different security agencies," Shah said. Mohan urged the graduating IPS officers to prepare for new internal security challenges like narcotics, cybercrime and illegal immigration. "In the technology domain, the young officers would encounter challenges on social media, which are now emerging in an entirely different dimension."
"Fake messages, deep fake videos, all kinds of altered reality is now available on social media. It creates unnecessary mobilisation and ultimately it leads to law and order problems," he said. The problem of technology and social media would confront the young officers and they will have to find resources to come up with creative solutions which are as per law, he said. "Homegrown terrorism has also come to, more or less, an end. Foreign-inspired terrorism, except for a few parts of the country, is no longer visible in any other part," he said. Regarding anonymisation of crime, he cited instances such as hit jobs being advertised on the dark net, with criminals transferring money to carry them out and threat calls being made through a VPN from foreign locations.Technology has to keep pace with the law enforcement efforts, he said.