Karnatraka govt, Bavaria ink pact on police cooperation

Karnataka and Germany's Bavaria have signed a joint declaration ofintent to intensify police cooperation between the two states.
The declaration was signed between the BavarianMinistry of Interior for Building and Transport and theKarnataka Home Department during the visitof a delegation lead by Home Minister G Parameshwara to the German state.
Both ministries have intended to cooperate by exchangeof experience in police tasks with regard to public securityand order, especially in fields of safe city planning and development, citizen-friendly policing, establishment of safe cities jointly with stakeholders including civil society.
Also, victim protection, especially protection of women and children; cooperation between police, justice and civil society organisations; traffic security; cyber crime and technologies for crime fighting; basic and advanced police training are covered under the tie-up, a copy of the declaration released to the media here said.

The document of joint declaration of intent signed between Parameshwara and Joachim Herrmann, Bavarian State Minister of the interior for Building and Transport in Munich on June 20, said that the cooperation will be carried out mainly through the engagement of experts, information visits and capacity building measures like workshopsm, seminars and conferences.
The declaration of willingness is in continuation tothe existing MoU between the two governments signed on April 2,2007.