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NEW DELHI: National Security
Guard (NSG) may soon be made
to send its teams to foreign
countries to study terror attacks
such as the one in Nairobi's
shopping mall last month, in order to understand changing
tactics of extremists across the
world. A proposal to send a team to the
Kenyan capital to interact with
the crack commando team that
neutralized the terrorists is
already in the works and would
be sent to the home ministry, sources privy to the
development said. NSG, as of now, has no mandate to engage in such activity
and thus will need permission from MHA and then
diplomatic engagements through the ministry of
external affairs (MEA) to make it happen. Once the Nairobi trip goes through, such trips to
other countries would also be worked out. The
idea, sources said, was to learn new terror tactics
and operational advancements from commandoes
who engaged in the operations. "At the moment,
interaction with foreign forces is generally through seminars or training sessions. These rarely have
currency and are generally based on second-hand
information. Only the commando who engaged in
the operation will tell you exactly what happened,
what were the challenges and how they were
surmounted," said an NSG officer. Sources said given that terrorists are devising new
tactics every day, it is important for NSG to increase
operational interaction with other crack teams
across the world to share new trends. "The Nairobi
attack was very much like 26/11 where we
participated. We need to learn how different it was from our operation," said the officer. Apart from
this, NSG sources said the force's focus was on
constantly upgrading its armour and improving
training for operational efficiency. On the 29th raising day of the force, NSG DG Arvind
Ranjan said that the force had started psychological
profiling of its personnel to identify their real
capabilities and use them accordingly. "We are
taking help from defence institutes in this.
Sometimes a man with natural affinity to shoot may be put in an administrative job and vice versa.
Psychological profiling will identify the natural
potential of personnel and help us train and utilize
them accordingly. This will improve our operational
efficiency," Ranjan said. The NSG DG also dismissed the clamour for a
separate aircraft for forces demanded after NSG
teams were delayed for 26/11 operation for lack of
an aircraft as not feasible and unnecessary. "The
maintenance of aircrafts is too cumbersome and
one has to keep an entire fleet for emergency operations. When we have all aircrafts in the
country at our disposal whenever we need them,
why buy our own," Ranjan said. NSG also unveiled its new acquisitions such as
Renault APC-Sherpa, an armoured mobile
command vehicle with improvised ladders and
platforms. The vehicle would be used in hijack
situations and terror attacks.
Guard (NSG) may soon be made
to send its teams to foreign
countries to study terror attacks
such as the one in Nairobi's
shopping mall last month, in order to understand changing
tactics of extremists across the
world. A proposal to send a team to the
Kenyan capital to interact with
the crack commando team that
neutralized the terrorists is
already in the works and would
be sent to the home ministry, sources privy to the
development said. NSG, as of now, has no mandate to engage in such activity
and thus will need permission from MHA and then
diplomatic engagements through the ministry of
external affairs (MEA) to make it happen. Once the Nairobi trip goes through, such trips to
other countries would also be worked out. The
idea, sources said, was to learn new terror tactics
and operational advancements from commandoes
who engaged in the operations. "At the moment,
interaction with foreign forces is generally through seminars or training sessions. These rarely have
currency and are generally based on second-hand
information. Only the commando who engaged in
the operation will tell you exactly what happened,
what were the challenges and how they were
surmounted," said an NSG officer. Sources said given that terrorists are devising new
tactics every day, it is important for NSG to increase
operational interaction with other crack teams
across the world to share new trends. "The Nairobi
attack was very much like 26/11 where we
participated. We need to learn how different it was from our operation," said the officer. Apart from
this, NSG sources said the force's focus was on
constantly upgrading its armour and improving
training for operational efficiency. On the 29th raising day of the force, NSG DG Arvind
Ranjan said that the force had started psychological
profiling of its personnel to identify their real
capabilities and use them accordingly. "We are
taking help from defence institutes in this.
Sometimes a man with natural affinity to shoot may be put in an administrative job and vice versa.
Psychological profiling will identify the natural
potential of personnel and help us train and utilize
them accordingly. This will improve our operational
efficiency," Ranjan said. The NSG DG also dismissed the clamour for a
separate aircraft for forces demanded after NSG
teams were delayed for 26/11 operation for lack of
an aircraft as not feasible and unnecessary. "The
maintenance of aircrafts is too cumbersome and
one has to keep an entire fleet for emergency operations. When we have all aircrafts in the
country at our disposal whenever we need them,
why buy our own," Ranjan said. NSG also unveiled its new acquisitions such as
Renault APC-Sherpa, an armoured mobile
command vehicle with improvised ladders and
platforms. The vehicle would be used in hijack
situations and terror attacks.
