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Corruption, India

CBI Director inaugurates First Indo-French Workshop on “Combating Counterfeit Medicine”

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cbiNew Delhi: The First Indo-French Workshop on “Combating Counterfeit Medicine” (23-24 June, 2015) for Police Officers, Investigators & other officers, being hosted by the Central Bureau of Investigation was inaugurated by CBI Director Anil Sinha in New Delhi.

First of its kind for Police officers, investigators & other officers from Law Enforcement agencies, this workshop is being organised in collaboration with French Embassy; Institute of Research Against Counterfeit Medicines, France; along with Central Office Against Environmental & Public Health Violations, France and Central Fight Against Harm to the Environment And Public Health (OCLAESP).

Inaugurating the Workshop, Director Sinha said that if drugs themselves are spurious, nothing can be more dangerous for human life. He said that problem of counterfeit medicines have assumed alarming proportions and there is an urgent need to fight this growing menace. According to an estimate of INTERPOL, fake medicines kill more people in a year than those who have died in the past 40 years as a result of terrorism. Large amounts of money are involved in these transnational criminal enterprises. Counterfeiting is a global problem which now has attracted due attention of people from medical profession, Drug Enforcement Agencies and Law Enforcement Agencies like Customs and Police. Counterfeiters, who run this deadly trade undercover, use sophisticated technologies and tools and are well equipped.

Sinha briefly touched upon the significant achievements of Interpol’s Medical Product Counterfeiting and Pharmaceutical Crime (MPCPC) unit which coordinated a series of transnational operations codenamed Operation Pangea resulting in impressive seizures of counterfeit medicines world over.

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CBI Director asks new recruits to maintain highest levels of integrity and honesty

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Investiture Ceremony of the 18th Batch of Sub-Inspector Cadets of CBI at Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh on May 1, 2015
Investiture Ceremony of the 18th Batch of Sub-Inspector Cadets of CBI at Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh on May 1, 2015

Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh, India): Anil Sinha, Director Central Bureau of Investigation, India’s premier investigating agency, today urged the new recruits to maintain highest standards of integrity, professional ethics, devotion to duty and do their job professionally, without fear or favour and maintain highest levels of honesty in all walks of life.

Sinha was speaking at the Investiture Ceremony of the 18th Batch of Sub-Inspector Cadets of CBI held today at CBI Academy at Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh.

Addressing the Sub Inspector cadets and other officers of the CBI and staff of the Training Academy, Sinha said that the success of the CBI hinges on “quiet hard work and unimpeachable conduct of its Investigating Officers as they form the backbone of this premier investigative Agency.”

Stating that “law is your only friend, justice to the cause your only goal, and the truth the only road to achieve it”, the CBI Director said that investigation is the result of patient hard work and perseverance within the framework of the law. He added that not only the mere discovery of facts are not enough, but the facts have to be established beyond all reasonable doubt.

Sinha urged the officers to be specialists in the investigation of not only Anti-corruption offences but also in investigation of conventional crimes, economic offences, complex financial crimes and bank frauds, High-Tech cyber crimes and crimes having trans-national ramifications.

The CBI Director also announced the setting up of a new Centre for Excellence Campus within the premises of the prestigious CBI Academy, which will also see the Technology vertical giving real time support during field investigation.

At the special function to mark the Investiture ceremony, the “All Round Best” Cadet Award was given to Animesh Kumar, the newly inducted Sub Inspector.

On this occasion the CBI Director also inaugurated an exclusive MAC and Linux Forensic Lab at the CBI Academy, which is first of its kind in India. This lab is equipped with the latest work stations; forensic data recovery softwares, Forensic tools like cloning/imaging, password recovery, forensic analysis and internet artifacts recovery.