Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Feb 16: Police Department in collaboration with Delhi University will be imparting soft skill development training to about 10, 000 police men across all the districts in the Valley.
A spokesman said at least 10,500 police men will be trained by 13 experts from DU in the five-day programme which commences from today till 21st of this month.
Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, Abdul Gani Mir and Dr. Pamela Singla, Project Coordinator of the programme discussed the training format in a meeting today.
SSP Srinagar Amit Kumar, SP Ganderbal Shahid Mehraj, SP PCR Suhail Munawar, ASP PCR Manoj Panditha also participated in the meeting besides other senior officers.
Mir said life skills enhancement training at all District Police Headquarters of the Valley in collaboration with University of Delhi is a part of our continued effort to help our men cope with the fast changing world of today and to equip them to meet the highly evolving expectations of the general public of today.
The IGP said that development of Soft Skill for the police personnel for better police-public interface was off long envisaged to be an area where there is immense scope of improvement especially at the cutting edge level of police stations where police-public relations have direct bearing on the quality of the delivery of services.
The teams will undertake 70 sessions at all the police districts of the Valley.
In CKR the teams headed by the facilitator Shewta Verma will hold sessions at College of Education M A Road, District Police Lines, Srinagar, besides two teams will impart sessions at District Budgam and Ganderbal. The teams will train 3000 policemen during their sessions.
In SKR, the teams headed by facilitator Iqbal Bhat will be holding training sessions in District Anantnag, Pulwama, Awantipora, Shopian and Kulgam imparting trainings to 3750 police personnel.
In NKR the teams headed by facilitator Dr. Kaivalya T Desai will undertake training sessions in the districts of Baramulla, Sopore, Kupwara, Handwara and Bandipora wherein 3750 policemen will be trained.
The expert team had extensive orientation training in Delhi for a week in which senior officers of Kashmir Police had also participated to make them aware of the working environment in Kashmir.
This training programme is sponsored by Jammu and Kashmir Bank.
IGP Kashmir expressed special thanks to Jammu and Kashmir Bank especially Chairman J&K Bank Mushtaq Ahmad.