Tamil Nadu Police Academy's New Syllabus

Emphasis will be on community relations,social legislations

Revised syllabus will include human resource management techniques

Chennai: The syllabus for trainees at the Tamil Nadu Police Academy will be revised with the thrust on social legislations and community relations.

A senior Academy officer said the accent on new laws was needed as they were more relevant to dealing with the public, and would enable the recruits to perform well once they finished training.

The revised syllabus would include human resource management techniques too. Close supervision and monitoring of trainees within the academy and while they were at work would be ensured.

New building:

The first phase of the academy building being constructed at a cost of Rs.48 crore at Oonamancheri off Tambaram is nearing completion. Authorities planning to start training from next January.

The officer said the new facility would enable various aspects of the training to be imparted under one roof. In addition to the regular faculty, serving officers would also be roped in to train the recruits.

Effort would be made to attract the best of talent from outside to teach the recruits. Better courses for in-service training and professional specialisation were also being thought of.

At present, training facilities were available at different places and large-scale recruitment in one go had cast a burden on the infrastructure. It was felt that the quality of training being imparted was not uniform. The faculty was being drawn from outside on ad hoc basis.

It was felt that more thrust could be given to police-public interface. The idea was to bring about attitudinal change. The Government had sanctioned a huge sum, including Rs. 5 crore for equipment. “Now, we have to deliver,” the officer said.

Mixed response:

It was a mixed response as to whether the new facility would yield the desired results. Said a former Director-General of Police, V.R. Lakshminarayanan, “I don’t think the powers that be are interested in bringing about an attitudinal change.”

No progressive measure had been accepted by the State or Central Governments. There could be a change in the attitude only when administrators accepted the fact that policemen were answerable to law and law alone.

Lack of proper training and professionalism and rampant corruption had become the bane of the police, pointed out an Additional Director-General of Police (ADGP). The force attracted the best of talent.

Tamil Nadu Police Academy's New Syllabus

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