Police officers will train school students of seven districts of the State. As many as 300 students will be selected from each district and they will be trained in the various procedures of the police and law and order. Senior police officers will take classes for the students.
The students will visit the police stations, police control rooms, police training centers and traffic wings to get familiarized with the various activities of the police. Retired police officers too will be asked to assist in this.
The Central Home Ministry had instructed all the states to commence Student Police Cadet Programme. The Madhya Pradesh Government has chosen 7 districts for this program. They are Gwalior, Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpur, Ujjain, Vidhisha and Panna. The Central Government has set apart Rs 1.44 crore for this programme.
The students who are selected for this program will be trained in the District Police Headquarters.
A separate syllabus for this program has been approved. The students will be trained over a period of 26 weeks. Classes will be for one hour every week.
The full course will be for three years and during this period 2 batches will be trained. A nodal officer of the rank of Additional Superintend of Police has been appointed in every district for the smooth running of the programme.
Monitoring of the programme will be done by the SP of the respective districts.