Punjab Police to tie up with NY University

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 5

In a joint project with New York University and Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC), Mumbai, the Punjab Police are set to empower 57,600 strong constabulary.

They will be trained to become village and mohalla police officers as per the international standards for policing.

“A tripartite MoU between the Punjab Police and the Marron Institute of Urban Management in New York University (NYU) and IDFC, Mumbai, will be inked shortly,” said DGP Dinkar Gupta on Thursday.

The project titled “Precademics” would empower the constabulary and the entire force in general to become practitioners-cum-academicians by being enriched with data analysis, better work hours and support of latest technology in the field, the DGP added.

Prof Angela Hawken, Director of Marron institute, who specialises in research and police preparation on drugs, crime and corruption, will be guiding the project for the Punjab Police.

She held a day-long meeting with senior police officers at the Police Headquarters here today after travelling to Amritsar and Tarn Taran districts to have a field experience of police working. She had a one-on-one session with the district police, especially the constabulary, where she asked them to send her suggestions for improvement in policing as well as police working conditions.

The aim of the project will be to explore the potential of the constabulary constituting 57,600 force out of nearly 80,000 police personnel in the state, besides preparing teams for crime data analysis and monitoring and studying district-level police working.

“The project also includes re-organisation of police stations to include human resource managers on the corporate structure lines,” the DGP said.

Professor Angela said her teams specialised in rapid cycle research and worked on pilot projects for better governance as well as to provide better working conditions for the police.