Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU) officials address emerging internal security concerns

GUWAHATI: Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU) organized a media conclave in Guwahati on Wednesday with the aim of creating awareness about its pioneering efforts in national security and police education. Addressing the media persons present, Avinash Kharel, Campus Director of RRU, Pashighat, Arunachal Pradesh, emphasised the uniqueness of RRU compared to other universities in India. He highlighted that RRU, which has been established as an Institution of National Importance under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, through the Parliament Act in 2020, strives to create an academic-research-training ecosystem dedicated to national security. Kharel underscored the university's commitment to delivering highly professional education, research, and training through its qualified faculty and dedicated human resources. He informed that RRU has curated training programmes for both state police forces and central armed police forces with the purpose of skilling, reskilling, and upskilling them to deftly handle the new forms of security concerns such as cyber security, financial fraud, criminology, forensic sciences, IT, AI, etc.

Kumar Sabyasachi Srivastva, Outreach Officer at RRU, presented an overview of the various courses offered by the university. During the media briefing, Pavni Gupta, Deputy Director of PIB Guwahati, emphasized the importance of addressing individual security concerns and the role institutions like RRU play in training skilled manpower to meet the growing needs of the nation. The faculties of RRU impart high-quality teaching in a range of super-specialised academic programmes at RRU and in other universities and police academies in the areas of SMART Policing Technologies, Cyber Security, Crime Investigation, Criminology, Advanced Scientific Investigations and Interrogations, Crime and Security Laws, GIS and Crime Mapping, Crime Data Analytics, Police Administration, Counter Insurgency, Disaster Management, Industrial Security, Coastal and Maritime Security, Private Security Management, Security Entrepreneurship, Artificial Intelligence, Block Chain Technology.

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