{"id":107649,"date":"2020-10-16T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=107649"},"modified":"2020-10-16T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T22:56:00","slug":"indias-counter-terrorist-force-trained-mrs-security-personnel-force-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/10\/16\/indias-counter-terrorist-force-trained-mrs-security-personnel-force-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s counter-terrorist force trained MR&#8217;s security personnel: Force Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>India&#8217;s federal counter-terrorist force NSG has trained a select group of personnel who protect Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, the chief of the commando force said on Friday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Economic Times, NSG director general (additional charge) S S Deswal said this in his address on the occasion of the force&#8217;s 36th Raising Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the force has acquired the most modern weapons and equipment to distinguish itself as a &#8220;world class zero-error force&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The NSG close protection force has trained 21 personnel of Sri Lanka&#8217;s PM security division in close protection skills. The honourable Prime Minister of Sri Lanka wrote to the honourable Indian PM and praised the training,&#8221; Deswal said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He, however, did not mention the time period when these personnel were trained by the NSG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Security Guard, also known as the &#8216;black cat&#8217; commandos, was raised as a federal contingency force in 1984 to undertake specialist counter-terrorist, counter-hijack and hostage rescue operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has a special component called the CPF (close protection force) that provides security to high-risk VIPs under the top category Z+ cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has about 13 protectees under its charge at present, including Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror India&#8217;s federal counter-terrorist force NSG has trained a select group of personnel who protect Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, the chief of the commando force said on Friday.&nbsp; According to Economic Times, NSG director general (additional charge) S S Deswal said this in his address on the occasion of the force&#8217;s 36th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}