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Web-based training for policewomen soon

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI Aug. 1 . A web-based training programme on counselling techniques and disputes resolution for women police officers in Tamil Nadu will be started soon.

Aimed at improving officers capability to handle cases efficiently, the project is expected to commence by September this year, the Inspector-General of Police, Vigilance and Anti-Corruption, K. Radhakrishnan, programe architect, said today.

Participating in a multi-site videoconference, jointly organised by the British Council and the Bureau of Police Research and Development to launch the CD-ROM on ``Women in Police'', Mr. Radhakrishnan explained the All Women Police Stations (AWPS) in the State were popular and their workload had increased tremendously.

But, women police lacked sufficient training in interviewing and counselling. To meet these needs, the web-based training has been proposed.

Nearly 30 women officers belonging to three AWPS in metropolitan cities will be trained. After the online training, the outcome would be evaluated. The project could serve as a model to provide training to other women personnel.

The videoconferencing was from the British Council's Knowledge and Learning Centre, New Delhi. Sites in Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Chandigarh and Bangalore were connected.

The CD-ROM, which was part of the Indo-British collaboration, was launched by the Joint Commissioner of Police, Training, New Delhi, Kiran Bedi.

It was a tribute to women in police in the country and a documentation of the process, milestones and outputs of the Indo-British collaboration for women in police during 1999 and 2002.

The results of a survey on ``organisational role stress among women in police'' formed part of the programme. Plans are afoot to conduct a comparative study of men and women of all ranks in Delhi police.

The Additional Director-General of Police, Training, Tamil Nadu, Latika Saran, explained that personnel of three AWPS in Chennai, Coimbatore and Madurai would be selected for the training project.

The command centre would be the Police Training College in Chennai.

The suggestions made by speakers from various outstation centres were inclusion of proceedings of regional workshops in the CD-ROM and gender sensitisation of men police, circulation of the decisions of the first national conference for women in police, conducted in February in New Delhi, in-service training for women police and allowing the personnel to continue their studies while in service.

The Director-General, BPR &D, L.C. Amarnathan, said a time-bound programme was required on changes to women police uniform.

A strategy would be devised on most of the issues discussed at the conference. He said senior police officers would be requested to attend the next national women police conference. A proper study of the issues discussed would also be considered.

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