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No use aping Western traffic rules: Jana tells police

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Traffic police asked to adapt training to local conditions

PLAIN AND SIMPLE: Home Minister K. Jana Reddy along with Swaranjit Sen, DGP, and senior officials arriving to inaugurate a two-day conference on police training in Hyderabad on Monday. - Photo: Satish H.

HYDERABAD: The Home Minister, K. Jana Reddy, has asked IPS officers and other senior police officials from the State who undergo training in traffic regulation abroad to make a distinction between the conditions in foreign cities and in Hyderabad.

He did some plain speaking when he told them on Monday that the training they acquired in traffic regulation in England and the US could not be implemented in Hyderabad, as there was a world of difference in terms of civic sense, vehicular movement and width of roads.

"The training may give you some experience but do not attempt to implement it here," was his advise to them.

The Minister was inaugurating a two-day training conference for officials from police training institutes in the State.

Management skills

Mr. Reddy said the role of police had assumed significance in the present circumstances in the context of dealing with extremism and political agitations. They needed management skills to grapple with the situation.

He deplored the lack of liaison between police and Government in meeting the requirements of the force.

He did not know the requirements until he attended conferences like this one. The Director General of Police, Swaranjit Sen, sought the services of a physiotherapist, a nurse and an attendant for every police training institute as the vigorous training schedules took a heavy toll on the physique of trainees.

He also wanted appointment of 20 home guards for driving, computer work and other services at each of the six police training colleges in the State.

The in-charge Additional Director General, Training, D.T. Naik, said the conference would assess the quality of training programmes in the police training institutes.

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