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What is the News?
The Union government has asked the States to share more intelligence inputs through the Multi-Agency Centre (MAC).
What is a Multi-Agency Centre(MAC)?
MAC is a common counter-terrorism grid under the Intelligence Bureau. It was made operational in 2001 following the Kargil War.
Purpose: It is the nodal agency for the exchange of intelligence collected by various agencies and police forces across the country.
Headquarters: The national-level MAC is located in Delhi, while state capitals have subsidiary MACs(SMACs) where daily meetings are held to analyse inputs received in the previous 24 hours.
Note: Multi-Agency Centre(MAC) is different from Crime Multi-Agency Centre(Cri-MAC). Cri-MAC was launched by the Ministry of Home Affairs in 2020 to share information between various police forces on heinous crimes and other issues related to interstate coordination.
| Read more: National Intelligence Grid |
Source: This post is based on the article ‘States told to share intel on common grid’ published in The Hindu on 5th Jan 2022.
