NEW DELHI: With a view to sensitise the IPS probationers with the ever-demanding nature of policing, the National Police Academy (NPA) in Hyderabad has adopted a Sensitisation-Orientation-Competency model of training in place of the earlier trainer-driven model.
The new model focuses on sensitisation of probationers on relevant issues, enhancing their core competencies and developing domain expertise. Under the new format, the probationers are imparted training through different modules on court craft, tactics, IT, law and order, police leadership, ethics, human rights and police station.
Probationers are sensitised about the issues concerning vulnerable sections of society by arranging their visits to orphanages, old age and juvenile homes and through interactions with sex workers and surrendered Naxalites. Weekly environment-related activities are also undertaken to sensitise the trainees.
‘Legal and public order’ orientation is imparted through mock courts, simulation exercises on various aspects of crowd management, including negotiations, etc. For enhancing competencies in IT and cyber domain, a National Digital Crime Resource Training Centre has been set at the NPA campus where training is also imparted to IRS, Customs and judicial officers.
While earlier the training was imparted in a compartmentalised manner, now it is being done in an integrated manner. “The new training format has been adopted to bridge the gap between the basic police training and societal needs and PM Narendra Modi’s focus for making police SMART,” an official of the police division of the Ministry of Home Affairs said.