The Chhattisgarh Police Academy on Tuesday announced that it had trained close to 900 police personnel during the last calendar year. The academy, situated near Raipur in Chandrakhuri, trained as many as 898 police personnel in eight different training camps organised from January 2013 to December 2013.
It was informed that as many as 142 and 136 police officials were provided training in the second and third training sessions, respectively. Besides, those who went through the grind under different courses included two officials in the Indian Police Service (IPS) Induction Course, 63 sub-inspectors and Subedar in the second level training programme, 113 trainees in the basic programme meant for newly recruited constables, 345 trainees in the basic programme meant for the sub-inspectors, 39 officials in the basic programme meant for Assistant Superintendent of Police and 58 trainees in the basic programme meant for the Platoon Commander in 2013.
The training programmes aims to provide better learning of the police functioning to the trainees. The participants were trained in swimming, VVIP duty, armed and unarmed combat skills, Yoga, sports and other activities. Besides, the police officials are trained here to be sensitive towards women and children, to be ready to help the needy people and to ensure peace and harmony in the society. The trainees were taught about minutes of self-discipline, character building, human rights and Indian law. Established in 2005, the academy offers different programmes to sharpen skills of the trainee police personnel to combat crimes as well as to maintain law and order situation.