Essay on Police Training Programme in India !
Crime investigation being the primary and major responsibility of police organisation, it has to collect facts, evidences, witnesses and other cognate materials which influence the process of truth searching in the establishment of guilt or crime complicity therein. The police being the first to arrive on the scene of crime, it has to play a crucial role in the area of criminal justice administration.
It is therefore, imperative to provide an exhaustive preparatory education to all the prospective entrants to police service. Truly speaking, modern police must be a law enforcer and a lawyer, a scientist in a whole range of physical sciences, a psycologists a social worker well versed in human relations, an expert marriage counsellor, a youth adviser, an athletic and also a public servant. These are but a few of many skills a policeman must personally possess and many of them do possess them to a degree of excellence.
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In order to achieve this objective it has been suggested that a pre-entry professional education for policemen and policewomen be organised by the Department of Public Administration. It should be at two levels, namely:—
1. A two years certificate course after 10 plus 2 or equivalent examination.
2. A Degree course in police administration. The certificate course should cover, inter alia, elementary knowledge about Indian Constitution, concept of rule of law, general administration, police administration, problems of law and order, security, causes, prevention and detection of crime, basic penal laws, first aid, N.C.C., fire fighting devices, motor driving, cycling, swimming etc. The degree course should comprise detailed knowledge about the above plus an intensive study of criminology, victimology, juvenile delinquency, forensic science and modern techniques of crime prevention and detection.
Police all over the world today is increasingly making use of the scientific and technological developments in the field of investigation. Improvements in communication, electronics, forensic science and medicine have come as a great aid to the professional police in tackling crime.
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It hardly needs to be emphasised that modem crime and methods of criminals are getting highly sophisticated and better organised, and hence for tackling these, the police force should constantly up-date their training programmes, equipments and methodology. Adequate training in forensic science and computer technology to police personnel can be greatly helpful in speedy investigation of crime and criminals.
It would be pertinent to mention here that more recently the Central Detective Training School at Calcutta has introduced the science of hypnosis as a new subject in the curriculum for the probationer Police and Army officers. It is a science (and not magic) by which subconscious mind is activated whereby it can be known as to what is going on in another man’s mind.
Thus it is a scientific method of interrogating suspects during investigation. This new technique is useful in exacting from the witness a factual description of the offence and thus it provides important clues for detection of crime. However, the information so collected cannot be used as a piece of evidence.