New Delhi: Union home minister Amit Shah, on Friday, inaugurated the National IED Data Management System (NIDMS) of the National Security Guard (NSG) in New Delhi through video conferencing.
The event was attended by the Union home secretary, the Director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), the Director General of NSG, Director Generals of Central Armed Police Forces, and the Director Generals of Police of various states.
Addressing the event, the home minister said that significant work has been done over the last six years to generate various types of data and collect it in a systematic manner. He said that NIDMS will prove to be extremely important in the coming days for the investigation of all types of terrorist incidents occurring in the country and for the analysis of their various aspects.
NIDMS will also become the next-generation security shield against terrorism, Shah said.
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has generated various types of data in the past years, but until now they were in silos, separate from each other.
“Now, we are making efforts to connect all these data sources with one another and to develop an advanced Artificial Intelligence-based software for their analysis. The launch of NIDMS will accelerate this process and prove to be an important milestone in the direction of making the country safe from terrorism,” the minister said.
With the launch of NIDMS, a two-way comprehensive, integrated and online data platform will become available to NIA, Anti-Terrorism Squads (ATS) across the country, state police forces and all Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs), Shah said, adding that data related to any explosion or IED incident occurring at any location can be included in this system.
By utilising this data, necessary guidance can be obtained during investigations in every state, he said.. The NIDMS will prove extremely important in investigating terrorist activities, understanding trends in explosions, and formulating effective strategies against them.
The home minister also said that the database available with NSG contains data related to all bomb explosions from 1999 till now. Through NIDMS, this data will now be made available to police forces across the country and relevant agencies. NIDMS will become a robust platform for accurately analysing the patterns of bomb explosions that have occurred in the country so far, the modus operandi (MO), and the explosives used.
Shah said that it will provide significant help in establishing inter-linkages between incidents — based on MO and circuit methods — as well as in understanding overall trends and insights.
The NIDMS will serve as a single-click access window for data scattered across different case files for investigation agencies and anti-terror organizations, the minister noted.
