In order to improve the investigative and behavioural skills, a training calendar for 2015 is being prepared for junior police officials and constables who will be incorporated training at the district and range level. The training programme is likely to be started in the first week of March across the State. According to DGP Rajiv Kumar, giving a special emphasis on the training part for policemen, the training calendar is being prepared so that it could be brought on the ground in a formal way.
“We are now emphasizing on a comprehensive training programme for everyone strengthening the fundamentals on how to deal with the people approaching to them so that people do not feel reluctant to visit a police station,” said DGP Rajiv Kumar. The desired behavior of police officials are also being included into the curriculum of the training calendar which has been prepared by the state police is to be imparted to them, added the DGP.
Besides that, they will also be trained to develop soft skills to deal with the common people approaching them for relief, Kumar said. Directives have already been passed to the police officials at the IG level to start the process of implementing them, added Kumar. DGP, during the review meeting with senior police officials on Monday, reiterated on giving multifold training to the police officials so that proper investigation could be done in the cases registered at various police stations.
Modules of training calendar are being planned in such a way that it covers all the aspects of training including soft skills. “Other than the basic training for the policemen, we are preparing a training calendar for them which will be continued throughout the year from time to time to develop their investigative, behavioral and management skills among them,” said ADG (Training and Modernization) VH Deshmukh.
According to Deshmukh, stress will be given on incorporating soft skills among the policemen making them fit to deal with the people in a proper way. “Apart from developing their basic skills, police personnel will be trained in attitude management, skill management, stress management, behavioural management,” said Deshmukh.
Developing communication skills among them was also an important module of the training programme so that they could be told how deal properly with the colleagues, common people as well as the senior police officials, he added. Deshmukh further said that though there is a provision of such training to the policemen, training programme among the policemen is not being conducted regularly.
In order to regularise the training programmes, yearlong training calendar for the year 2015 is being prepared to be followed by everyone in the department without any fail, he added. Training programme will be conducted throughout the year by the competent authorities at all police lines, Police Training Camp in Hazaribagh, at Range level by DIG and district level by the SP of the concerned districts.