Basic computer training for more than 1,000 trainee men and women Sub Inspectors began on Monday.
The training programme is being conducted at B.S.Abdur Rahman University, Vandalur. Those attending it are 779 trainee SIs, including 227 women from Tamil Nadu Police Academy in Unamanchery and also 286 trainees, including 83 women from Police Training College in Ashok Nagar in the city.
Speaking during the inaugural function, Anoop Jaiswal, Additional Director General of Police, TNPA, told the trainee SIs that learning computer applications was not just an integral part of their day-to-day activities, but would also play a crucial when they take up future investigation of white collar and cyber crimes, especially the latter, which were increasing at the moment.
For the policemen to succeed, they had to seek the cooperation of the people and this required humility and they also had to reach out to eminent persons in the society, including doctors and academicians, Mr. Jaiswal said. Even today, many hesitated to visit police stations and this required an attitudinal change and young policemen and women too should contribute in making this change possible.
V.N.A. Jalal, Director, Admissions, T.R.Rangaswamy, Dean, Academic Affairs and R.Ganesan, Advisor, Academic Research from the private university also spoke.
TNPA officials said that while many of the trainees already possessed basic knowledge, the training would help them get familiar with computer operations that would help in administration and investigation when they do their actual work in the field after their one-year training.
R. Shriram, Director, Faculty Training Academy of the university, said they had been working for more than a month to create the training programme. There would be no lectures and every session would have only practical demonstrations. The trainees would also have to prepare a project at the end of the programme.
They would be exposed to basic concepts, creating a PowerPoint presentation, computer hardware, security, hacking of office content and internet use, in addition to recovery of material from hard drivers, Internet Protocol Address, among others, said Mr. Ramesh, who is also the programme coordinator.
The trainee SIs would be divided with each batch having 160. The training programme would last one week and the entire strength would be covered in a month's time.
