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Police training must be upgraded: Dharam Singh

By Our Special Correspondent

GULBARGA, NOV. 3. The Chief Minister, N. Dharam Singh, has stressed the need for upgrading the training of police personnel to meet the challenges from disruptive forces and anti-social elements and to maintain law and order.

He was speaking after inspecting the guard of honour of the first batch of 134 Police Sub-inspectors who passed the training programme at the Police Training School at Naganalli on the outskirts of Gulbarga today.

Mr. Dharam Singh said that the State police had a very important role to play in the country in cracking many difficult cases with their investigative skills and discipline. He asked the sub-inspectors to strive hard to emulate their seniors in maintaining integrity and high standards in their profession.

Referring to the Veerappan encounter, Mr. Dharam Singh said that the menace of the forest brigand had ended but only after sacrificing the lives of many valiant police officials.

Model training school

Mr. Dharam Singh recalled that as Home Minister in the S. Bangarappa Cabinet he had laid the foundation stone for the Naganalli Police Training School, which had now become a model training school in the country with visiting faculty from the National Police Academy and Andhra Pradesh Police Academy.

The Chief Minister also sanctioned Rs. 25 lakhs for introducing aspects such as tackling problems faced by women and children as part of the training at the school.

He also assured that the 25 acres of land required for establishing a firing range would be sanctioned immediately.

Communal activities

Mr. Dharam Singh said that the police should double their efforts to tackle the activities of communal elements at the grassroots itself. Referring to the naxalite problem in some parts of the State, Mr. Dharam Singh said that the Government was committed to viewing it as a socio-economic problem and finding a permanent solution to it.

Regarding the low conviction rate in the State, the Chief Minister pointed out that it did not reflect the crime rate in the State.

He said that in order to bring about a qualitative change the Department of Prosecution had been brought under the Home Ministry.

The Additional Director General (Training), Ajaykumar Singh; the Additional Director General of Police, M.K. Srivasatava; the Inspector General of Police (Training), M. Lakshman; the Director of the Training School, Anand Ayachut; the Inspector General of Police, Ramakrishna; and the Superintendent of Police, K. Ramachandra Rao, were present.

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