Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra
Modi on Sunday expressed need to train the police to handle
situations relating to internal security as presently they are
found no match with regard to challenges posed by Naxals.
Speaking at a seminar, he said, "Today when we see the
Naxalites and view the training of policemen in this regard,
it is a total mismatch. The job of police is to control the
mob, handle small crime related cases. He (policeman) has a
stick in hand and a pen to write under which section the crime
would be registered. But all of a sudden he has to face a
guerrilla war like situation to combat naxalism".
Modi said the police need to be trained according to
the challenge they are likely to face and have to be taught
the tactics of guerrilla warfare.
"If this is not done and the task of handling Naxals is
given to the police, then one after other we would lose our
policemen," he said, adding, there was urgent need to do
proper planning and train the police.
"There is need to institutionalise the training of
human resource. And those coming out of these institutions
would help us in combating problems of internal security,"
Modi said adding with the changing times, increase in
population and limited resources, there is a need to overhaul
the system.
The national level seminar on 'Human Resource
Development to Face Internal Security Challenges' was
organised by the Raksha Shakti University.
Over 250 participants ranging from security experts,
private security agencies to top police officials participated
in the deliberations.
PTI
First Published: Sunday, April 03, 2011, 22:07