Serve people with dedication, Khoda tells probationers

Tuesday, 07 02 2012 10:06

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JAMMU, FEBRUARY 6: The Director General of Police (DGP), Kuldeep Khoda has called upon the Probationary Deputy Superintendents of Police to serve the people with devotion and commitment and earn a good name for themselves and the police organization at large.
Interacting with the newly inducted 100 Deputy Superintendents of Police at Sher-i-Kashmir Police Academy, Udhampur (SKPA) today, the DGP said that other measures like modernization in respect of equipment and gadgets as also other aspects of investigations are being focussed. Besides, our priority has been to sharpen the training skills making JKP a model police force in the country.
Stressing the crucial importance of training in enhancing professionalism, Kuldeep Khoda said that an ambitious plan has been chalked out for conducting various advanced training courses for jawans and officers of Jammu and Kashmir Police. He said that our motive has remained to be people friendly while enforcing law and order and it has been ensured that common people, are not harassed at any level. The force while dealing tough situations in the field never lost their patience despite hostile actions by the bad elements. Officers and jawans of the Organization have show their high standards of discipline and proficiency while performing their duty in harsh conditions. Not only in the times of unrest, the force has extended its help to the people, but also during times of calamities. Due to the dint of devotion of jawans and officers, the force has made its name as a premier police force of the country.
Congratulating the probationary officers on choosing police service as their career, the DGP said that during their basic training course, they would be put to training in different arenas of policing like investigation skills, crime control, weaponry, combating anti-national elements, public management, mountaineering, fire fighting, horse riding, map reading and other professional skills. He said that the people in distress have much expectations with the police and the probationary officers have to make this as their motive to strengthen the image of police among the masses. He said that local police has the primary role in tackling difficult and challenging situations and the up-gradation of all police training institutions in the state is in offing and the training syllabus as per the latest requirements has also been implemented for various courses, he said.
The DGP said that the Organization is having its Training Institutions across the State and the Police Academy being its premier training institute imparts training in various areas like counter insurgency, crime detection, investigation, sophisticated technology to dovetail into crime control network. Besides, several specialized training courses are conducted in other fields including observance of human  rights, cyber crime, crowd control by using minimum force, VIP security etc.
Khoda said that the force has to increase its proficiency at various fronts of policing to enhance the capabilities of the Organization. He also said that JKP has acquired acclaim at national level for its prime role in restoring peace in the State in both anti-militancy and maintenance of law and order fronts. He said that the training imparted to the jawans and officers in using non-lethal equipments would help in controlling the situations without causing damage to the human life and properties. He asked the officers to adopt modern techniques while dealing the situations in the field and the public should consider the men in khaki their protectors. He said that policemen are symbols of government in field and service of the society should be our priority. By this way they would earn a good name for the organization and achieve own objective, he added.
During the interaction course, question - answer session was also held with the officers and the DGP responded several queries with regard to professional policing. He appreciated the Director SKPA and his staff for organizing such interaction courses in the Academy.    
Earlier, the Director, SKPA Udhampur, A.K Gupta gave a brief resume of training activities of the Police Academy. He said that the Academy is running various training courses for state police officers and IPS officers. The Academy has been earning a name throughout the country in conducting advanced courses in different fields of policing and some new chapters have been included in the syllabus to meet the challenges of modern policing.
On the occasion, a blood donation camp was also held in which 76 officers and jawans donated 70 points of blood for District Hospital Udhampur.
Among others, the function was attended by Additional Director General of Police (Headquarters), Dr. S. P. Vaid, Joint Director SKPA, T. Punchok, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Udhampur - Reasi Range, Jagjit Kumar. Senior Superintendent of Police, Udhampur, Shakeel Ahmed  Beig, AIG Provision/Transport, (PHQ), Aftab Ahmed Kakroo, AIG, Buildings (PHQ), Shabir Ahmed Malik, Executive Engineer, PCD, N. D. Khawaja and other police officers.