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Imparting better skills Law & order

A 10-day intensive training programme for selected police personnel which concluded on Friday is expected to increase detection and conviction rates in cases registered at various police stations of Kozhikode city.

As of now the conviction rates stood below 40 per cent. Records with the police department revealed that in the previous year only 195 cases had been detected out of the total of 671 cases pertaining to dacoity, robbery, housebreaks and ordinary theft s reported at the various police stations.

It was less than 30 per cent on an average while the detection rate at some of the police stations was even less than 25 per cent.

One of the reasons attributed to this fact is improper investigations. Now the training would help personnel to tackle cases without hurdles and in a speedy way, said Kozhikode City Police Commissioner Balram Kumar Upadhyay.

Thirty personnel, including sub-inspectors and head constables, two each from 14 police stations in the city were selected from a list prepared by Assistant Commissioner of Police (North) C.M. Pradeep Kumar.

Two women personnel also formed part of the training group.

In consultation with the Institute of Management in Government (IMG), a time table was drawn up on various subjects. Some of the topics were new to the participants.

“They were taught the basics from filing the First Information Report to the prosecution stage” said Vinod Mathew George, Assistant Commissioner of Police (Narcotics), who was the coordinator of the training programme.

It was also for the first time in the State that such a training programme was held for police personnel in a city. Those trained would now impart their knowledge to other personnel at their respective police stations, he said. IMG regional director K.S. Premraj handled classes on Right to Information Act; Head of the Department of Forensic Medicine, Kozhikode Medical College, Sherly Vasu on application of forensic medicine in cases; Senior Deputy Superintendent of Police S. Vijayan and his team attached to the High Tech Cell in Thiruvananthapuram, on cyber crimes and Assistant Director of Forensic Science Laboratory P.B. Gangadharan on polygraph, brain mapping system and nacro analysis. Modules on probing rape; murder; man missing; Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes atrocities; thefts; suspicious deaths such as burns, hanging, drowning and poisoning cases were also held.

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