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Threats to the general peace may range from minor civil unrest, large scale violence, or even an armed insurgency.Threats to internal security may be directed at either the state's citizens, or the organs and infrastructure of the state itself, and may range from petty crime, serious organized crime, political or industrial unrest, or even domestic terrorism.
The Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) was a controversial law passed by the Indian parliament in 1971 giving the administration of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Indian law enforcement agencies very broad powers – indefinite preventive detention of individuals, search and seizure of property without warrants, and wiretapping – in the quelling of civil and political disorder in ...
The Indian Police Service more popularly known as the 'IPS', is responsible for internal security, public safety and law and order. In 1948, a year after India gained independence from Britain, the Imperial Police (IP) was replaced by the Indian Police Service. The IPS is not a law enforcement agency in its own right; rather it is the body to ...
Over the years the ARC has grown into a large operation and flies a large and varied fleet. Aerial surveillance, SIGINT operations, photo reconnaissance flights (PHOTINT), [5] monitoring of borders, imagery intelligence (IMINT) [6] are the main functions of the Aviation Research Centre (ARC). The aircraft are fitted with state-of-the-art ...
United Service Institution of India (USI) is a national security and defence services think tank based in New Delhi, India. It describes its aim as the "furtherance of interest and knowledge in the art, science and literature of the defence services". USI operates centres for research in various areas of national security.
A Police Station (PS) is the basic unit of policing, responsible for prevention and detection of crime, maintenance of public order, enforcing law in general as well as for performing protection duties and making security arrangements for the constitutional authorities, government functionaries, representatives of the public in different ...
Internal Security Act may refer to: Internal Security Act 1960, former Malaysian law; Internal Security Act (Singapore) McCarran Internal Security Act, a United ...
He was later given the additional position of secretary of Internal Security which he served until 1989. In 1988, he served secretary of the Ministry of Defence for ten months. [5] He was appointed 18th Cabinet Secretary, the senior-most position in the Indian civil service hierarchy, in 1989 [9] and later served as a member of Planning ...