🔆National Investigating Agency Act

🔆National Investigating Agency Act, 2008

✅National Investigating Agency (NIA) was created after the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks as need for a central agency to combat terrorism was realised.
✅The National Investigation Agency aims to be a thoroughly professional investigative agency matching the best international standards.
✅The NIA aims to set the standards of excellence in counter terrorism and other national security related investigations at the national level by developing into a highly trained, partnership oriented workforce.
✅NIA aims at creating deterrence for existing and potential terrorist groups/individuals. It aims to develop a storehouse of all terrorist related information.

📍National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID)

✅NATGRID is an ambitious counterterrorism mechanism, which will utilise technologies like Big Data and analytics to study and analyse the huge amounts of data from various intelligence and enforcement agencies to help track suspected terrorists and prevent terrorist attacks.
✅A post 26/11 Mumbai attack measure, NATGRID aims to mitigate a vital deficiency — lack of real time information, which was considered to be one of the major hurdles in detecting US terror suspect David Fleadley’s movement across the country during his multiple visits between 2006 and 2009.
✅It is a counter terrorism measure that collects and collates a host of information from government databases including tax and bank account details, credit/debit card transactions, visa and immigration records and itineraries of rail and air travel.
✅It also has access to the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems, a database that links crime information, including First Information Reports, across 14,000 police stations in India.
✅This combined data will be made available to 11 central agencies.