‘Training of cops for people's force'

Lucknow: Holding a comprehensive conferencing session to review the training of 60,244 newly recruited police constables, DGP Rajeev Krishna on Friday said that after the completion of training, every police station in the state will benefit from the presence of 25 additional well-trained constables which will be a "gamechanger" for policing efficiency.
Stressing on the significance of the initiative as a transformative milestone for the UP Police, he said the training initiative was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build a professional and people-centric police force and urged officers to treat it as a generational responsibility.
He said that recruits should be categorised based on their existing skillsets. "These details should be compiled using the Karmayogi portal to create a comprehensive skills database that can aid future resource planning," he said.
The DGP also issued specific directives related to social media conduct. "All recruits must be thoroughly briefed on the official police social media policy. Both soft and hard copies of the policy, along with awareness video clips, should be distributed and shown at all training centres. In compliance with Supreme Court directives, all women's training centres must establish Vishakha Committees to handle internal complaints related to harassment," he said.

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