<P> National Investigation Agency (NIA) is the central agency to combat terror in India . The agency is empowered to deal with terror related crimes across states without special permission from the states . The National Investigation Agency Bill 2008 to create the agency was moved in Parliament by Union Home Minister on 16 December 2008 . The NIA was created in response to the Nov 2008 Mumbai terror attacks as need for a central agency to combat terrorism was found . It also deals with drug trafficking and currency counterfeiting . It draws its officers from IRS and IPS . </P> <P> The NCB is responsible for anti-narcotic operations all over the country . It checks the spread of contraband as well as the cultivation of drugs . The officers in this organisation are drawn from IPS and IRS . </P> <P> The Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D) was set up on 28 August 1970 in furtherance of the objective of the Government of India for the modernization of Police Forces . It is involved in a research, relating to problems confronting the Indian police, the training of different ranks of Police in India, and the introduction of technology at both federal and state levels . </P> <P> The National Police Commission in 1979 recommended the creation of a "Nodal Agency" which suggested the maintenance of criminal records at all the police stations in the country and to create shareable databases at police stations and districts and at state and federal Level . </P>

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