Police trainees urged to acquire probe skills

From our correspondent

Itagar, Sept 12: Aruchal Pradesh IGP (Admn) Manish Kumar Agrawal on Monday iugurated a week-long training programme on “Investigation of Murder and Homicide Case” at Police Training Centre (PTC), Banderdewa.

Addressing the iugural session, Agrawal congratulated the PTC staff for taking a big step by opening its doors to the police forces of the neighbouring States. “It is a step in the direction of the Chief Minister’s vision to make the PTC a state of art centre in line with Shillong-based North East Police Academy (NEPA),” he said.

 He hoped that Aruchal Police would get to interact with officers of other police forces and learn from their best practices. He thanked BPR&D, New Delhi and NEPA for their contribution in this course and thanked the DGP for envisioning and planning the training programme.

The IGP further appealed to all the trainees to be sincere and acquire knowledge towards smart policing and proper investigation of cases.

Earlier, PTC Principal Dr vdeep S Brar said that the Centre has so far trained 45 batches of constable recruits, who are providing yeomen services in maintaining law and order in Aruchal Pradesh.

APP is conducting the week-long course in collaboration with BPR&D under the scheme of Developing Scientific Investigator (DSI). The DSI scheme is a new initiative of BPR&D under Smart Policing, as envisioned by Prime Minister rendra Modi. Under the scheme, BPR&D had sought nomitions from all the states for holding the course and entrusted PTC Banderdewa with this opportunity.

The training module will cover various aspects of scientific investigation tools such as forensic evidence from scene of crime, brain mapping, D alysis, medico-legal aspects and law and procedures.