New Delhi: A FIFA-Interpol Workshop on \u2018Tackling Match Fixing and Corruption in Football\u2019 will be held from January 15-16, 2014 in New Delhi. The Workshop is part of FIFA-Interpol Training, Education and Prevention initiative and is being partnered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).<\/p>\n
Besides representatives from FIFA, Interpol — the World\u2019s largest Police Organisation, and CBI, the Workshop and would also be attended by representatives from Delhi Police. Officials from Mumbai Police have also been invited for the same.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, representatives from All India Football Federation (AIFF), International Cricket Council (ICC), Football Club owners would also be present along with representatives from the Ministry of Sports & Youth Affairs.<\/p>\n
Dr. Shaji Prabhakaran, FIFA Development Officer for South and Central Asia who is coordinating the two-day meet said the priority stays to \u201ceducate all stakeholders.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFIFA has a partnership with Interpol since 2011 and the focus is to put into place the preventive measures and educate all the stakeholders and key players about the menace of match manipulations. We intend to engage all the law enforcing agencies in the act,\u201d Dr. Prabhakaran told www.the-aiff.com.<\/p>\n
\u201cI need to complement All India Football Federation for being proactive and coming on board for bringing this initiative to India,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cA Partnership development meeting involving the key stakeholders of Football and Law Enforcement Agencies would also be held at the end of Workshop,\u201d Dr. Prabhakaran informed. \u201cThis Group will be taking the discussion forward and put in place the framework and continue the process of educating all about the manipulation and related issues.\u201d<\/p>\n
As part of the Programme, the two-day Workshop will throw light on various match-fixing scenarios and the links involved in it. A separate session will be devoted on Interpol demonstrating as how to combat \u2018Match-fixing.\u2019<\/p>\n
The tool available in the fight against corruption in sport including identifying key stakeholders, importance of information collection and sharing, training and education and how to overcome barriers and motivate key factors will furthermore be explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Delhi: A FIFA-Interpol Workshop on \u2018Tackling Match Fixing and Corruption in Football\u2019 will be held from January 15-16, 2014 in New Delhi. The Workshop is part of FIFA-Interpol Training, Education and Prevention initiative and is being partnered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).<\/p>\n
Besides representatives from FIFA, Interpol — the World\u2019s largest Police Organisation, and CBI, the Workshop and would also be attended by representatives from Delhi Police. Officials from Mumbai Police have also been invited for the same.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, representatives from All India Football Federation (AIFF), International Cricket Council (ICC), Football Club owners would also be present along with representatives from the Ministry of Sports & Youth Affairs.<\/p>\n
Dr. Shaji Prabhakaran, FIFA Development Officer for South and Central Asia who is coordinating the two-day meet said the priority stays to \u201ceducate all stakeholders.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFIFA has a partnership with Interpol since 2011 and the focus is to put into place the preventive measures and educate all the stakeholders and key players about the menace of match manipulations. We intend to engage all the law enforcing agencies in the act,\u201d Dr. Prabhakaran told www.the-aiff.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-isn-front-stories"],"yoast_head":"\n