LG asks police to enhance professionalism, improve soft skills

Lt Governor Anil Baijal today asked the Delhi Police to focus on enhancing professionalism and improving soft skills as the former chaired a meeting over law & order in the city.
Asserting that technology across various verticals like intelligence, investigation, forensics, cyber etc plays an important role, he directed the force to establish structured linkages with premier universities such as IIIT-Delhi, IGDTUW etc for their constant inputs and guidance.
The direction was issued at a meeting chaired by the Lt Governor and attended by Chief Secretary M M Kutty, Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik, Special CPs and Joint CPs of the Delhi Police.

In the meeting, the training programmes of the Delhi Police was also reviewed.
"The Lt Governor emphasised upon the need for increased professionalism within the police force. He also stressed upon the critical need to improve soft skills as well as the skills for better stress and time management," the LG office said in a statement.
It stated that the LG directed to involve premier private sector organisations for training in soft skills and communication skills.

Baijal stressed upon the importance of proper communication skills especially for PCR units and public facilitation desk officers to improve public interface and make the services more people-friendly.

In meeting, the LG was also informed that specific study material for police officers has been developed in the form of CDs, training films, informative booklets, etc.
Further, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs has approved Rs 137.78 crores for a modern Police Training School at Jharoda Kalan with a proposed training capacity of 2,000 personnel.