***************************************************************** Documented by Goa Desc Documentation Service & circulated by Goa Civic & Consumer Action Network (GOA CAN)<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ***************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------- Sensitisation course for police officers held. ---------------------------------------------------------------
A sensitisation course for all police officers of the rank of PIs and above was held in the Police Head Quarters Conference Hall, Panjim on Saturday. According to a press release, eminent personalities namely Pinheiro, principal, Salgaocar College of Law, Arun Sinha, editor of The Navhind Times and R K Pal, Joint Chief Electoral Officer were the main speakers. Earlier, Devesh Shrivastava, SP CID welcomed the gathering consisting of DGP, DIG, DIG-CID, SPs, DySPs and all PIs of Goa Police. Pinheiro spoke on human rights and its violations. He said, that it is easy to speak about Human Rights but practical implementation of the same is difficult. He also spoke about the universal declaration of human rights. He further said that, if there is an ideal society where no one is deprived of his/her rights, then there is no need of the police. Speaking further, he said that, the role of police in a progressive society moving towards idealism is limited to preventing or correcting the aberrations. Pinheiro also spoke on the study conducted by two police officials namely G S Singhavi and Baljeet Sur. Arun Sinha spoke about 'Police-Public Relationship and Functioning of Police' today. He said that, the Police should act as servants of the people and not agents of the state as is the case today. Sinha informed that, the Britishers created two forms of police i.e. one for themselves and the other for their colonies and added that this is the reason why the police officials today in India identify themselves as servants of political masters. Speaking further, he said, the main duty of the Police is prevention and detection of crime but police today concentrates on prevention of crime only and maintenance of law and order. He lamented that, the detection rate in India is very poor and the conviction rate is as law as 6 per cent. To improve this, he said, Law and order should be separated from investigation and more attention should be paid to registration, detection, successful prosecution and conviction of the crime. He suggested that Public Advisory Committee for each police station in Goa as a solution to the problem. R K Pal, suggested some guidelines to be followed by the police during the forthcoming elections. As regards the shortage of traffic policeman, DGP Gurcharan S Sandhu mentioned that, the Traffic Cell in Goa was formed in 1984 during CHOG-M and after that there was no increase in the Traffic Police strength although vehicles, populations etc. has increased remarkably. He also informed that, 26 accident prone areas were identified by the Goa Police but only 12 of these have been rectified till date. Regarding the point of separation of Investigation from Law and Order, Sandhu said that, the Crime Branch of the State Police has been specialised and added that, officers of Crime Branch have been trained to deal with cyber crime, economic offences, corruption cases etc. He also mentioned that, the revamping of the Goa Police force is under progress. Later there was an interaction between the speakers and the police officers. Devesh Shrivastava thanked all the speakers for sparing their valuable time and addressing the Police officials and hoped that the Police Officials will strictly follow the NHRC/Supreme Court guidelines in their working and also follow the election guidelines in the forthcoming Assembly elections ----------------------------------------- HERALD 13/5/02 page 5 ---------------------------------------- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet =================================================================== For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
