As part of an exchange programme, a team of Federal Bureau of Investigation officers arrived in Mumbai on Thursday and held deliberations with the top brass of the city police and exchanged views on tackling terror and other crimes.
The 15-member team from the United States accompanied by Bureau of Police Research Development met the city police commissioner Arup Patnaik at the police headquarters. The city police and the FBI exchanged their views and measures adopted in tackling terror and other crimes like robbery and murder.
The team, which will be in Mumbai till Friday, is also designing content for senior police officers, who will be participating in a two-week course to be held in October in Los Angeles. The course will be aimed at helping higher command police officers in forming special weapons and tactics (SWAT) and quick response teams in the city.
"This is the team that came to Mumbai that looks after the tactical operations of the FBI. The team had an interaction with the top brass of city including few handpicked policemen on Thursday. The team shall also meet officers from the anti-terrorism squad, force one and other units," said a senior officer who was present in the interaction.
Patnaik is understood to have explained the working pattern of the security agencies in Mumbai, modernisation programme as well as new measures taken to tackle crime.
The FBI team had on Wednesday visited Delhi police headquarters, National Security Guard headquarters and held similar discussions with the top brass. "The course will include how to set up field command centres at the site itself during attacks like November 26 terror strikes. The centres will be like a control room at the site so that the officers manning them can give first hand leads from the spot," an officer said.
The team lodged in the Heritage building at Hotel Taj, will also visit the sites of July 13 blasts.
