The CRPF on Wednesday released “Warrior’s Creed- Our doctrines” at a function at CRPF Academy Gurugram. The document is a collation of CRPF’s operational philosophy and mores aimed at providing the future leaders with guiding principles for administrative and operational imperatives.
A brain child of Director General of CRPF, Dr A P Maheswari, the compilation of the doctrine was undertaken jointly by the CRPF Academy and the Operations Directorate of the Force’s headquarters here. The document has recorded and codified the doctrines which will also go a long way in ‘fostering initiative’ and ‘stimulating creativity’.
“It is for the first time in the history of CRPF that such a keystone document has been promulgated. This work has been inspired by the vision of Dr A P Maheshwari, DG CRPF. CRPF, the nation’s lead Counter Insurgency force, is deployed across the country, performing myriad duties, with 90 % strength deployed continuously in high intensity violence theatres. Consequently, CRPF is required to maintain a high level of readiness, regardless of the terrain or the weather. Counter Insurgency Ops have, over the years, become far more complex and challenging, necessitating the need for an intellectual study framework, which should be coherent enough to provide guidance and flexible enough to be adapted to given scenarios,” the CRPF said in a statement.
Speaking on the occasion, DG CRPF reiterated that the Warrior’s Creed is not meant to be sacrosanct or timeless, they will continue to evolve with changing times and challenges. They will not act as iron tight procedures or diktats but as a guide to help commanders to think, within the parameters of our charter of duties, and execute operational tasks in the best possible manner.
He also stressed that Doctrines are always ‘unfinished products’ being ‘Evolving in nature’, for ready reference as ‘Distilled wisdom’ and a ‘Referral document’ for the policy makers, CRPF personnel and the academia.