Security personnel take part in a drill in metro during a counter-terrorism exercise at the National Security Guard (NSG) Training Centre in Manesar in November 2024.
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More than 650 commandos from the State police and the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) participated in the National Security Guard’s (NSG) two-week counter-terrorism and counter-improvised explosive device (IED) exercise that concluded on Saturday.

A statement by the NSG said 31 teams from States such as Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Jammu & Kashmir, Puducherry, Chandigarh, and 10 teams from five CAPFs, comprising a total of 667 elite commandos, participated in the exercise.

“The exercises honed counter-terrorist, bomb disposal, and K9 teams’ (dog squads) skills through demonstrations, displays, and case studies, emphasising on joint operations in challenging scenarios to improve the coordination and synergy between NSG and State-level forces. This annual exercise aligns with the Ministry of Home Affairs’ directives of ‘Duty to Share’ expertise by NSG in its niche competencies,” the NSG said.

It added that the teams were trained in tactical urban and rural settings. Live interventions were conducted in various scenarios, including buses, metros, trains, and aircraft, and in IED search and on how to defuse them.

New Delhi:

Senior IPS officer B Srinivasan was on Tuesday appointed as the Director General of the National Security Guard (NSG), the country’s counter-terrorism force, according to a Personnel Ministry order.

Srinivasan is a 1992 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the Bihar cadre.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Srinivasan as Director General, NSG, from the date of joining the post and up to August 31, 2027, — the date of his superannuation, the order said.

He is currently serving as the director of Bihar Police Academy, Rajgir.

Popularly known as the “black cats”, the federal contingency force NSG was raised in 1984.

The post of NSG DG was lying vacant after incumbent Nalin Prabhat was named as the new chief of the Jammu and Kashmir Police.

He was appointed as the NSG chief in April this year, for a tenure up to August 31, 2028 (the date of his retirement).

However, the Centre on August 15 cut short his tenure and named him as the chief of the Jammu and Kashmir Police.

Prabhat, who has joined as Special Director General of the Jammu and Kashmir police, will take over the reins of the force after the retirement of incumbent R R Swain on September 30.

Following Prabhat’s appointment, Director General of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Anish Dayal Singh has been holding additional charge of the NSG.

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