Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said that the police force should be developed into a professional system which promotes the cultural development of the state.
After taking salute at the passing out parade of 164 sub-inspectors and 123 civil police officers at the Kerala Police Academy on Thursday, the chief minister reminded the force to be mindful of the language used by the public.
“Training is of great importance in transforming the force. In olden times, police force was used to control and dominate the people. For this their training was also programmed. But after independence, the whole army was included in the army. There was a change in the way. Police has become people friendly from the epitome of terror. However, some exceptional cases have been reported even now. Even after the best training available in the country, isolated incidents like this bring disrepute to the entire police force. Has been,” Mr. Vijayan said.
Highly educated youth are now coming into force. He said he should be able to give a professional face to the force.
Congratulating the police for their effective role in the fight against COVID-19, the Chief Minister said that when the entire people chose to sit inside their homes, the police personnel worked day and night on the road.
State Police Chief Anil Kant, P. Balachandran, MLA, ADGP (Training) and Director, Kerala Police Academy, Balaram Kumar Upadhyay, IGP (Training) K. Sethuraman, and senior officials were present at the Academy.
The training of 30th ‘C’ Batch of Sub-Inspector Cadets formally started on 30th October, 2020. This is the 5th gender-neutral batch of sub-inspector cadets trained at the academy. There are 142 males and 22 females in the batch representing all the revenue districts of Kerala.
The newly appointed sub-inspectors have a good number of highly educated members. The list has one M.Tech, 30 B.Tech, five MCA, three MBA, one BBA, 25 post graduate and 100 graduate.
A total of 23 new dogs will join the K-9 squad of Kerala Police after they pass out from the Kerala Police Academy’s State Dog Training School. On Thursday, a passing out parade of dogs of the 12th batch was also held at the main parade ground of the academy.