Govt approves setting up of National Police University

Union Cabinet in a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday gave its approval to establish a National Police University

New Delhi: Union Cabinet in a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday gave its approval to establish a National Police University to provide quality education, research and other related academic activities in police related subjects.

Briefing reporters after the meeting, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said that the University would also deal with subjects including competence in the areas of physical and social sciences.

Home Ministry sources said that land has been allocated in the national capital for the university which would be set up on the lines of the prestigious National Defence Academy.

They said the idea was to fine tune policing with the changing times in view of worsening internal security situation, lack of serious research and development and dip in the morale of security men.

The university is likely to offer graduates, post graduates and PhD courses to civilians and serving police officers in a range of subjects including biological warfare, criminal psychology, public relations, human rights, insurgency and communal tensions. (PTI)

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