New Delhi, Oct 27 (PTI) Asserting that technology has substantially altered the space of policing, President Droupadi Murmu on Monday said ‘digital arrest’ has become one of the most dreaded threats to citizens.

Addressing a group of probationers of the Indian Police Service (IPS), who called on her at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Murmu said people, especially the marginalised, should look at police as a source of support and not as a fearsome entity.

The president said India is the fastest growing major economy in the world, and "we need increasingly larger public and private investments for sustaining and accelerating our economic growth".

"Law and order is a necessary pre-condition for attracting investment in any state or region. Effective policing is as important as economic incentives

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