The Union Home Ministry has awarded the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Academy, Mussoorie, the premier officers’ training academy of the border guarding force, as the best Gazetted Officers (GOs) training institute for 2016-17 under the category National Level (CAPFs/CPOs).
Under the category, the CISF, NISA, Hyderabad of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) for 2017-18 followed by Border Security Force’s BSF Academy, Tekanpur for 2018-19 and Central Reserve Police Force’s CRPF Academy, Gurugram for 2019-20.
The winner institution gets `20 lakh reward each for training institutions for gazetted officers, non-gazetted offices training institutes and other ranks (constables) at the national and state levels. At the zonal level, `2 lakh each is awarded to the training institutions of the state police in the northern, eastern, north eastern, central, western and southern zones for gazetted, non-gazetted and other ranks’ training institutions.
The Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D) had carried out the inspections of various police training institutes of the nation for 4 consecutive years starting from 2016 to 2020 and each year, there were prizes for the best police training centres in the country in 3 levels- National level for CAPFs/ CPOs, National level for States and UTs and Zonal level in 3 categories of each level- Gazetted Officers (GOs), Non-Gazetted Officers (NGOs) and Others (Constables) training.