The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is providing training to a group of police officers from Sri Lanka. A group of twenty-three senior police officers recently departed for New Delhi to participate in a specially designed two-week course that begins on June 18th, as per a statement released by the Indian High Commission in Colombo. They are currently receiving training at NIA in a variety of topics, including internal security dynamics, financing of terrorism, fundamentalism in Islam and other religions, etc.
“The National Investigation Agency of India provides training to Lankan law enforcement.”
The text of the HC’s statement in this respect is as follows: The Central Detective Training Institute (CDTI), Jaipur; CDTI, Hyderabad; CDTI, Kolkata; and National Security Guard (NSG), Manesar are among the top police training institutions in India. The High Commission of India has been arranging specially designed capacity building training courses for the Sri Lankan Police personnel at their request.
India frequently provides fully funded training slots for different training courses to improve the officers’ skills to Sri Lankan police personnel. More than sixty police officers—junior, mid-level, and senior—have benefited from the excellent training programmes offered since the start of 2024 on a range of topics, including crime scene management, artificial intelligence and cybercrime investigation, and VIP security training. The Indian government (GoI) is offering these courses as part of the “Aid to Sri Lanka” programme and the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC). This year, more than 130 police officers from Sri Lanka are anticipated to receive training in India.
