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Earn good will of people, policemen urged

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ADGP inaugurates in-house training centre in Kancheepuram

— Photo: A. Muralitharan

NEW FACILITY: V. Balachandran, ADGP (Tranining), inaugurating the in-house training centre at the District Police Housing Quarters in Kancheepuram on Monday. (From left) Shakeel Akhtar, DIG, Kancheepuram, K. Radhakrishnan, IG, North Zone, and T. Rajendiran, IG, Training, are in the picture.

KANCHEEPURAM: The Additional Director-General of Police (Training), V. Balachandran, has called upon new police constables to execute their duties in such a manner as to earn goodwill of the people.

Addressing a group of 200 personnel, who were inducted into the Armed Reserve Wing of the Kancheepuram police district from the Tamil Nadu Special Police Service here on Monday, the ADGP said the personnel, who had school education as basic qualification and joined the Tamil Nadu police as constables two decade ago, executed their duties as expected of them.

The people, in general, seem to have preferred to stay away from law-enforcing machinery since they have considered the policeman neither as a friend nor as an enemy, Mr. Balachandran said. He wanted the younger generation constables to prune their public relation skills. “I am confident that the new generation constables can change the image of police since most of them are better qualified in terms of education and training”, he said.

The Inspector-General of Police (Training), T. Rajendran, said an interaction with a handful of Inspectors and Sub-inspectors from different parts of the State had thrown up a shocking revelation that most of the constables did not know anything about their nature of work.

New training module

So, a new training module was developed to impart basic knowledge of duties of constables, right from sentry duty at the stations to escort duty.

A total of 4,000 personnel from the TSP would be inducted into the AR wing of various police districts in the State, he said.

The Inspector-General (North Zone), K. Radhakrishnan, said 200 TSP personnel, who were trained for 15 days at the Temporary Police Training School here, would be inducted into the AR Wing of the Kancheepuram police district, another 250 as AR personnel in the Vellore police district and 160 in the Villupuram police district.

The Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Kancheepuram Range, Mohammed Shakeel Akhter, the Superintendent of Police, Kancheepuram, K. Periaiya and the SP, Tiruvallur, N. K. Senthamaraikannan were among those who participated.

Earlier, Mr. Balachandran declared open an in-house training centre for police at the District Police Housing Quarters.

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