Union Home Minister addressed the inaugural session of the 48th All India Police Science Congress in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

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Union Home Minister has addressed the inaugural session of the 48th All India Police Science Congress in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.

What are the key highlights from his address?

Police as a State Subject: The police is a state subject in the Constitution. Due to this, India is facing the challenge of uniformity in response.

For instance, left-wing extremism is a problem in many States. But if state police work in isolation, then it is hard to face all these challenges properly. 

But for this, India doesn’t need to change the Constitution. Instead, the government can organize meetings such as the All India Police Science Congress and DG’s Conference to discuss problems in their area and create a uniform policy. 

On Technology

Adopt Police Science: Police across the country should concentrate on Police Science.

Police science has two aspects – Science for Police and Science of Police. 

For Science for Police,  police across the country should work to utilize all nine citizen services under CCTNS and take them to every police station. Anti-Terrorist Squads should be activated to study FIRs and data among others.

For the Science of Police, India has to advance the use of Medical Science, Forensic Science, Management Science, Arms Science and Communications Science. 

Prepare policing strategy: Police departments should institutionalize a 10-year policing strategy and perform annual reviews.

This is very important as now crimes are taking place which cannot be fought without police modernization, training, coordination between state police, coordination between police outside the state and imbibing technology.

Police Technology Mission: The government will launch a High-Power Police Technology Mission to adopt future technologies for grassroots policing requirements.

Source: This post is based on the article “Union Home Minister addressed the inaugural session of the 48th All India Police Science Congress in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh” published in PIB on 22nd April 2022