Daijiworld News Network - Mangalore (GA)

Mangalore, Jun 20: A days training program on identification of counterfeit currency and Wild Life Protection Act was organized by DK Police at Police guest house, Mangalore on Monday June 19.   Besides police officers of the district, officers of the customs, income tax, forest and prosecution department attended the two training sessions.

The focus of first session was on identification of counterfeit currency and resource persons from Reserve Bank of India Bangalore took this session. The participants also had an opportunity of hands on session where in they were asked to differentiate between fake and genuine notes based on the security features. In addition the RBI Officers also enlightened the participants about the new bank notes containing more security features that have been introduced in the country from June 2005 onwards.

Earlier SP B Dayanand in his opening remarks explained the purpose behind organizing the training programm by pointing out the number of counterfeit currency note cases that have been reported in the past few months.

In the second session K S N Chikeroor IGP (CID and Forest Cell) enlightened police Officers, prosecutors and officers of Forest and Animal Husbandry about the Wild Life Protection Act, 1972 and Karnataka State Forest Act. He pointed out that Illegal Wild Life trade is the second largest illegal trade after illegal drug trade in the world. He also mentioned that smugglers are supplying fake pelt by painting the skin of other animals as they are getting very high price in international market.