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4-day training in shooting for woman SIs begins

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Modular method being incorporated into the yearlong programme

AIMING HIGH: Shooting training for women sub-inspector trainees, which began at the police shooting range at Valanad near Tuticorin on Tuesday.

TUTICORIN: : A four-day shooting training for 394 women sub-inspector trainees of the Police Training College here began at the police shooting range-cum-centre for policing and training at Vallanad near here on Tuesday.

The Additional Director General of Police, K. Vijay Kumar, who is Project Officer of the School of Excellence and SI Training Academy, Chennai, supervised the training, along with DIG (Training), Seema Agrawal, the DIG (Tirunelveli range), K. Gopalakrishnan, and the Superintendent of Police, Sandeep Rai Rathore. The ADGP, V. Balachandran, member, Tamil Nadu Uniform Services Recruitment Board, was also present.

Speaking to presspersons, Ms. Agrawal said the cadets would be taught how to use rifles, pistols, self-loading rifles and light machine guns.

Every rookie SI had to fire 25 rounds each with a .303 rifle and a 9-mm pistol and 10 rounds each with 9-mm carbine, .380 revolver, AK-47, SLR and LMG. The modular method was incorporated into the yearlong training schedule for the SIs from this batch.

It was similar to the one followed at the Sardar Vallabhabai Patel National Police Academy at Shivaramapalli in Hyderabad, where the IPS officers are trained. "The new system enables us to lay adequate emphasis on traffic, law and social justice, which help to integrate the training in a better manner."

Ms. Agrawal said altogether 1000 women SIs and 2,000 women constables were now undergoing training at various training colleges and recruitment schools across the State.

She said buildings would be constructed for six in-service training centres in the State during the current fiscal, with funds from the police modernization scheme.

"We have completed the construction of edifices for another set of six such centres, including the one in Tirunelveli."

Ms. Agrawal said the new buildings would be equipped with cyber halls with a wide range of computers. The in-service centres were being used for conducting refresher courses for personnel, from constabulary to the Deputy Superintendents of Police.

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