ISLAMABAD, Oct 11: Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Department — Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) — will assist the Federal Investigating Agency (FIA) in setting up a crime scene investigating unit, FIA Director-General Tariq Parvez said on Wednesday.

This special unit will further enhance the capacity of the agency to probe crimes, particularly acts of terrorism and extremism, he said while talking to APP.

The director general said the details of the project were discussed in a meeting with a delegation of the German Federal Criminal Police Department headed by its director, Jorg Ziercke, in Islamabad on Tuesday.

After a final go ahead by the interior ministry, the unit would be established and hopefully it would be operational by December, he said, adding that the unit would be manned by 10 FIA officers.

The unit, to be trained here and in Germany by the German police, would work under the FIA’s existing special investigation group. The unit would also be provided necessary equipment by Germany.

The BKA is Germany’s principle anti-crime agency and it works in active collaboration with its counterparts in other European countries.