That is INTERPOL - Delegation to India - Mumbai Attack
Within minutes after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his Address to the Nation stated that the orchestrated attacks in Mumbai probably had 'external linkages' and that India would 'take the strongest possible measures to ensure that there is no repetition of such terrorist acts, the INTERPOL announced that a delegation led by its Secretary General is heading to India to meet with senior law enforcement officials following the series of co-ordinated terror attacks across Mumbai.
Secretary General Ronald K. Noble said, "When such co-ordinated and planned terrorist attacks are carried out against international targets and when a country's Head of Government states there are suspected 'external linkages', the police in the country concerned require international assistance."
"There is only one way to thoroughly investigate suspected terrorist linkages internationally. The investigating law enforcement authorities must compare the names, fingerprints and DNA of the suspected terrorists killed, arrested or at large against global databases via INTERPOL," he added.
INTERPOL notes, "With more than 30 terrorist attacks resulting in hundreds of deaths carried out across the country in 2008 alone, India has the resources and experience to fully and capably deal with a national terrorist investigation. However, as these attacks involved nationals of several countries, no one country alone could carry out a full investigation without utilizing global databases and services".
Mumbai police's emergency operations centre has requested the deployment of an INTERPOL Incident Response Team (IRT) to ensure close international co-operation.
In addition to providing direct support in Mumbai, INTERPOL's delegation to New Delhi will meet with the Head of India's Central Bureau of Investigation and the INTERPOL National Central Bureau located in New Delhi to determine what additional resources may be required. Staff from its 24-hour Command and Co-ordination Centre (CCC) at the General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon have been tasked to treat all messages relating to the attacks as a priority and are on standby to provide support with co-ordinating the international aspects of India's response to this terrorist incident.
INTERPOL will do its best to provide our Indian colleagues with whatever support they might request," said the Secretary General.
This is what decision making is all about - within minutes of the PM's statement, they decided to send a mission to India.
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