A three day long ‘Range Police Duty Meet’ was inaugurated on Tuesday. DIG PR Das, Hazaribagh Range and SP Manoj Kaushik jointly launched the meet by lighting the lamp. The meet which is being held in the auditorium of Police Control Room, Hazaribagh, Inspectors, Sub-Inspectors and constables of Hazaribagh, Chatra, Koderma and Giridih districts are taking part.
In their inaugural speeches both DIG Das and SP Kaushik welcomed the participants and hoped that they will perform their best to be a part of the State team which will participate in the All India Police Duty Meet. “During these three days you will also learn many things which will help you in giving better service” the DIG informed the participants of the meeting. SP Kaushik said that it is a competition of different nature where the police officers will get an opportunity to improve their skills and knowledge.
Talking about the curriculum of three day long meet, fingerprint expert of CBI Neeraj Sahay informed that during these three days the participants will go through various skill tests.
It will be both written and practical, but prior to this test, the experts will try to give them the knowledge of the topic or subject from the basics to the recent developments.
The inspectors and sub-inspectors will have to participate in the tests of forensic science, medico-legal, listing-packing-forwarding, crime photography, law and fingerprint practical. The assistant sub-inspectors and constables will have to go through the tests of observation, dog squad, computer awareness and scratch photography.
For the successful organisation of this meet, experts from different corners of the State have arrived in Hazaribagh. Besides fingerprint expert Neeraj Sahay, PSl and medico-legal expert Wasim Ahmed, photography and observation expert Shailendra Kumar Chaturvedi, law expert Shankar Jha, dog squad expert Bisheshwar Bhagat and Sukhdev Kachchap are here to give tips and to evaluate the participants.
Sahay said that such meets are organised every year in different ranges and then State level meet is organised. After this, A State team is formed which takes part in All India Meet. last year in 2013, Deepak Kumar of Kolhan Range won the gold medal in fingerprint competition in All India Meet held in Bhopal and Om Prakash Shukla of Bokaro won silver in forensic science in January 2014.