An early morning half-an-hour walk in the serene and green surroundings of Sardar Vallabhai Patel National Police Academy (NPA) and an hour-long Yoga session in the company of the top police officials marked the start of the day for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday. The PM, who was in Hyderabad to attend the annual All India DGPs’ conference, arrived in the city last evening and had an overnight stay at the NPA campus.
After breakfast along with the participants, Modi garlanded the statue of freedom fighter and “Iron Man” Sardar Patel and paid tributes at the martyrs’ memorial. He also planted a sapling on the campus.
Before addressing the DGPs of all the States and Union Territories and other officials, Modi also went around the campus and inspected the facilities at National Police Academy — the premier institution where all the new recruits of the Indian Police Service (IPS) undergo a year-long training to impart all the necessary skills.
Emphasising on development of soft skills among the police force, Modi said human and behavioural psychology should be vital parts of police training, even as he called for a qualitative change in the force. He also launched a mobile app — ‘Indian Police at Your Call’ — and presented President’s Police Medals for Distinguished Service to officers of the Intelligence Bureau. Modi said leadership skills are important, and the onus lies on senior officers to inculcate these skills in the police personnel.
While inaugurating the conference on Friday evening, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said that the recent demonetisation by the Centre had hit the funding of terrorists and the Maoists. He said that the move was aimed at curbing black money and delivered a big blow to the anti- national forces.
Ministers of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju and Hansraj Gangaram Ahir, Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi, National Security Advisory Ajit Doval and other officials too attended the conference.