A six-day joint capacity building programme of the Jammu and Kashmir Police with the National Investigation agency (NIA) started at the Police headquarters here today.
During the six-day programme, the officers would be learning about important provisions of IPC, CrPC and evidence Act in relation to the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). The participants would be enlightened regarding evidence collection, recovery and preservation of evidence, especially electronic evidence, the importance of proper documentation in investigations, scene of crime management, court craft, intelligence collection and dos and don’ts during investigation.
The programme is being organized by the AIG (training/ policy) PHQ on behalf of J&K Police and about 100 investigators, including gazetted officers of J&K Police, are participating in this programme.
Director General of Police, J&K Dilbag Singh was the chief guest on the inaugural session. While welcoming the officers from NIA and investigating officers of J&K Police in the programme, the DGP expressed his pleasure to be the part of the programme and said that “each day is a learning experience for all of us”. He said that “investigation is the most important part of our work” and stressed upon the officers to make optimum use of this opportunity to hone their investigation skills and update them. He expressed his hope that this week-long training programme would help in a big way in improving the quality of investigation by the officers of J&K Police.
The first session of the programme was attended by ADGsP, Mukesh Singh, M.K. Sinha, Danesh Rana, IGsP Garib Dass, Vijay Kumar, DIG Central Kashmir Amit Kumar, SSsP Srinagar, Budgam, AIsG PHQ and IOs from Kashmir Zone, CID, and gazetted investigating officers and newly pass out PSIs who are going to assist in investigation.
ADGP Jammu Mukesh Singh, while addressing the session, shared his experience of working and investigating various sensational cases during his deputation to NIA. He threw light as to how speedy and result-oriented investigation is conducted in a holistic manner. He said that this programme would help in “improving our investigation proficiency”.
DIG, NIA Amresh Mishra, in his address, said that this joint programme is of a significant importance “as we will be sharing our experience”. He said that J&K Police has already made the nation proud with its professional work. He said that with each day’s experience new points keep coming up which further “improve our investigation techniques” and added that this workshop is aimed to focus on the modern challenges being faced by the investigation officers.
In his welcome address, the ADGP (coordination) PHQ expressed his gratitude to DG NIA Kuldiep Singh for facilitating this capacity building programme by assigning faculty members from NIA. He thanked the officers from NIA who would be imparting the capacity building training to J&K Police IOs offline as well as online. He stressed upon the officers to make full use of this opportunity so that the purpose of conducting the programme is achieved. He said that the participants will be benefited from the very experienced faculty from NIA and JK Police.