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Govt approves setting up of National Police University
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NewsByte on 02 May, 2008 02:39:00
 
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)