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1 I C PE S A U T Police Research, Development & Training NEWSLETTER New Union Home Secretary Shri Madhukar Gupta is the new Union Home Secretary. He succeeds Shri V.K. Duggal. An IAS Officer of 1971 batch from the Uttrakhand cadre, Shri Gupta's posting prior to joining his current assignment was Secretary, Youth Affairs and Sports in Government of India. Shri Gupta has had strong innings in the Home Ministry as Joint Secretary, incharge of Jammu & Kashmir from See inside for Takes Over Rajasthan has the Best Police Station in World... Page 4 Key performance indicators for police stations... Page 4 MoUs with Universities for research... Page 3 Modernization for Police Forces... Page 5 The BPR&D is privileged to see Mr. Madhukar Gupta, son of Dr. Anand Swarup Gupta, an Indian Police Officer and most illustrious first Director of BPR&D and author of many books on police as the Union Home Seceratary. BPR&D ANNOUNCES 2 nd Colloquium November 2007 in Delhi on AND RECOGNIZING POLI C Respecting & Recognizing Police Authors G N T E R E H O R S 38th All India Police Science Congress in August 2007 at Jaipur, Rajasthan on 1.Vision for Police Indian Police in comparison with Developing Countries For information contact : Sanjay Baniwal, DIG/DD (Research), BPR&D, Ph , dgbprd@yahoo.co.in VOLUME: 5 FEBRUARY - MARCH, 2007 ISSUE-2-3

2 Training Activities BPR&D Reaches Out Director Training Mr. Rakesh Jaruhar addressing Delegates from Thailand Snippets Dr.Kiran Bedi, DG BPR&D interacted with the Trainees of "Advanced Course on Scientific Investigation" in CDTS Hyderabad on D r. T C h a k r a b o r t y, A D attended 30th All India and 1st International Criminology Conference in University of Kolkata held on Dr. BV Trivedi, AD BPR&D innaugrated VIC for Prison Officers on "Best Prison practices" at Raipur on Shri Rajesh Kumar IPS and Dr. Dhani Ram and Dr. Ravi Ambast of BPRD attended workshop on Delivery of Justice Reforms in Police Stations and Emerging Best Practices at Jaipur on DD (Res) Mr. Sanjay Baniwal with Police Officers from Mauritius at TISS Mumbai BPR&D Officers reached out to Police Officers from other countries: 1. Mauritius - Police Reforms 2. Thailand - Indian Police System 3. US, UN - Anti Human Trafficking 4. Myanmar 5. Maldives 6. Bhutan }Poilce Training 7. Seychelles 8. Nepal Other Courses organized by BPR&D: 1. Replication of US courses on Post Blast Investigation, VIP Protection, Crisis Response 2. TOT courses in Italy, West Bengal and UP. etc R. Jaruhar: We have to train for counter insurgency Mr Jaruhar has visited this training. Already 203 Patna to review the training of personnel from Bihar and personnel of Bihar Police in Jharkhand Police have been jungle warfare by Assam Riffles trained under this scheme. These from 23rd to 25th Feb 07. It is in officials are trained in ambushthe context of acute lack of counter ambush movement in Counter Insurgency operation jungle, Road Opening night petrol skills and training in Police f i r i n g, w o r k i n g i n b u d d y Forces in affected areas,that f ormations etc. BPR&D took initiative to organize For Upcoming courses by BPR&D visit A Course on Juvenile Delinquency and Justice Dr. Dhani Ram SO (Trg) day training module on Juvenile BPRD has developed training Delinquency. It also offers a material on Juvenile Justice. The questionnaire to assess your course covers theories, trends, understanding of the subject. The legislations, acts and roles of aim of the package is to equip the NGO's, media and police in trainees with such skills, which handling juvenile delinquency, are required in handling of reforms and justice. juvenile delinquents. The entire The entire package offers a 5 text is available on

3 RESEARCH INITIATIVES MoU with Universities for Actionable Research in policing Latest Reading Materials The first conference of R e g i s t r a r s o f v a r i o u s universities was held at BPR&D on 31/1/2007. The conference was held to work out details of memorandum of understanding to be signed between each university and BPR&D to facilitate ACTION BASED RESEARCH. It would require universities to prioritize the research on Police/Prison issues by their students and researchers. It would be ensured by each university that such research projects are by DM Mitra, Director LNJN-NICFS Shri DM Mitra while posted as Dy.Director at BPR&D went to Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College, US for 1.5 year. This book is a product of his research i n a s s o c i a t i o n w i t h t h i s Registrars and BPR&D Officials, 31 Jan 2007 Understanding Indian Insurgencies of democracy, social and political a u t o n o m y, a n d c o u n t e r institute. A simple linear model insurgency operations are for India has been developed to discussed. Recommendations demonstrate how the degree of for effective counter insurgency inaccessibility of an area, the strategy and for long-term strength of separate social stability in these countries are identity of its population, and the included. India has very complex amount of external influence on society and provides an ideal t h e a r e a d e t e r m i n e window for understanding Asian the propensity of that area for Society. The entire text is insurgency. Implications of the a v a i l a b l e Indian model for various aspects of counterinsurgency strategy for the Third World, including economic development, the role BPR&D has developed following reading materials which is available in full-text on our website: 1. Handbook for Anti- T r a f f i c k i n g f o r Investigators. by Shri Rakesh Jaruhar, Director (Trg), BPR&D 2.Training material on Juvenile Delinquency and Justice by Dr. Dhani Ram SO(Trg), BPR&D 3. 5 Day Training Module for Understanding Juvenile Delinquency effectively supervised by their Sciences, Mumbai. 10. Jamia Milia Islamia expert faculty. BPR&D on the 5.University of Lucknow, UP. University. other hand would be required to 6.Banaras Hindu University, Copy of the specimen MoU is provide financial, logistic and MoU by BPR&D with following available at accessibility to data etc. support Universities likely to be signed Contact the relevant department on case to case basis. The aim soon: would be to provide fellowship 1.Jawaharlal Nehru University, of the University. (PhDs), Pilot Studies, Short Delhi Forward the research proposal to Term Research Studies and 2 North Eastern Hill University, BPR&D through Registrar of Research Projects. On behalf of Shilong University. BPR&D Shri.R.C.Arora Director 3.University of Rajasthan, A student/researcher/officer (R&D) has signed these MoUs 4.Gurunanak Dev University, interested in Actionable Reserach with the Universities. Punjab as PhD, Pilot Study, Research MoUs Signed with: 5.Punjab University, Project etc. will benefit from it for 1.University of Madras, 6.Aligarh Muslim University, financial support, access to data, 2.Jamia Hamdard University, 7. O s m a n i a U n i v e r s i t y, validity and supervision. 3.Dr. Harisingh Gaur University, Hyderabad All other Universities are welcome Sagar, Madhya Pradesh 8.West Bengal NUJS, to sign MoU with BPR&D 4.Tata Institute of Social 9. Delhi University o n army.mil &

4 Jaipur Police Station is World's No.1 SHIPRA PATH Police Station in Jaipur (Rajathan) is nation's pride. It has been selected the best Police Station in the world beating 450 contestants. The modest post in Mansarovar Colony beat Nigeria in Africa and Los Angles in United States in the race to Number One. Brazil, considered best in South America, was runner-up. Shipra Path vied with outposts from 34 c o u n t r i e s s p a n n i n g f i v e continents to be adjudged best with a score of 99 per cent. Altus Global Alliance of the Netherland adjudged the entries. Altus, an alliance of six academic centers and non-government organizations, is headquartered in the Hague. Shipra Path has also featured in India's top two Police Stations along with Ramganj in Jaipur city. It also became number one in Asia beating 167 posts. were being marked. Station The Altus team evaluated House Officer Mr Sunil Kumar outposts on a five-point criteria Punia received the award in The physical conditions on the Hague for coverage in The Hindu, p r e m i s e s, d e t e n t i o n, Tribune, Frontline, Sahara transparency and accountability Samay, CNN-IBN live coverage among others. and for other information may visit It scored 100 points in three home page of out of five criteria on which Posts (Courtesy Hindustan Times) Police Informations Key Performance Indicators of Police Stations in Delhi: Institute : Shri Ram Center of indicators have been suggested Industrial Relations and Human by the study Citizen Services : Resources, Delhi Services, Special Assistance, Researchers: Prof. JS Sodhi & Satisfaction Dr. V Dumblekar Preventive and Responsive The above study is conducted Action: on behalf of BPRD with six Public Security and Peace, representative police stations of Response of Police Personnel Delhi. The aim was to assess the Leadership(DCP/ACP,SHO/Ad. short-comings in the existing SHO) Other abilities and traits of performance criteria and suggest Station House Officer/Ad.Station new parameters based on House Officer. ground realities. The following set of performance Report on Comparative Rate of Imprisonment in Different Countries: Highlights It is generally alleged that prisoners in India languish in prisons for years together without trial. As against the total persons arrested in 2005, only 3.9% of under trial prisoners were awaiting trial. The Undertrial prisoners (as on ) in prisons are: 78.3% for one year or below. Shipra Path Police Station 19.5% for 3 to 6 months. 40.5% for 3 months or less Rajasthan scored per cent The rate of imprisonment is 30 in comparison to national average per lakh of population (lower of It was followed by than 205 countries). Chandigarh and Andhra Pradesh Shipra Path and Ramganj surpassed contestants in P h y s i c a l a n d D e t e n t i o n Conditions with scores of 89 and 85.6 per cents Women Police Uniform during Pregnancy The Bureau after interaction with women police officers of all C e n t r a l P o l i c e F o r c e s, collected information from different States/UTs and in consultation with different rules in existence, has re-drafted the rules and re-designed the women police uniform at the time of their family way. The recommended rules and designs have since been sent to Ministry of Home Affairs for further necessary approval. Commitment of all Police P e r s o n n e l, B e h a v i o r, Knowledge, Skills and Health of all Personnel Resources: A s s e t s, A m b i e n c e a n d Database. A further study by BPR&D has already been initiated to develop and quantify these performance indicators with due weight age of each in over P e r s o n n e l O t h e r t h a n all performance. SHO/Ad.SHO, Morale and

5 Modernization for Police Safe India Exhibition (13-16 Feb 2007) For Equipments of Communication Electronic Surveillance Detection Security At Pragati Maidan, Delhi 58 Officers from States attended. Officers in 4 groups, visited specific stalls followed by a conference to share experience and information, visited DRDO, PS, C/Room. Booklet of all manufacturers, products in this exhibition sent to all DG s. For You - Modernization Technology XDS Glass protection System: that provides a new and proven On BPR&D method of self sealing a fuel tank has organized a presentation under attack. It is applied like a by M/S XDS Security Protek paint coat on the fuel tank India Pvt. Ltd. on. It is a film exterior. It senses a puncture by which is pasted on any glass to a bullet and immediately seals provide protection against the hole to prevent leak of fuel injuries from glass fragments in and consequent fire. bomb blast, riot, ultra violet, Presentation of Weapon storms, heat and is fire retardant. Detection System: Vipra. This strengthened Enterprises Pvt Ltd. on glass can withstand more at 1530 hrs on Plastic and liquid impact and requires much more explosives detection. time to break during accidents, Area Sanitization by Video riots and natural disasters. It Camera: MAGNA-BSP, an Israel also keeps the glass intact in the company showed how an open frame for a longer time even after area such as parking lots, it has been broken. entrances can be secured The proprietary Acryl X through Video Cameras TM film is used on the exterior of networking. Intruder and the glass like a normal film and is intrusion are automatically cost effective identified and alerted. Tankskin:It is another product Exhibition on Disaster Managment B P R & D o r g a n i z e d a conference from 19-21/3/07 with E x h i b i t i o n o n D i s a s t e r Management at Pragati Maidan. 31 Officers from CPO's and State Police Forces attended it. E q u i p m e n t o n d i s a s t e r management displayed were Disaster information network equipment, Telescopic Lightning Tower, Disaster Management Planning, Metal Finder, Explosive Detection, Drug Detector, Life Detector, Infrared Sensor, Ultrasonic Sensor, Protective Mask, Bacteria Detection Kit, Medical equipment etc. The catalogue of above items and specific items of interest identified by participants have since been sent to all police forces

6 Promoting Good Practices & Standards Welfare of BPR&D Staff : Skill Upgradation It was felt by higher officers Ministerial Staff : Shri G Murthy that there is a need for improving (88%), Shri S C Dabral (85%) the quality of office working and and Smt. Anita Mahajan (83%) updating the knowledge of staff of BPR&D regarding 'Office PAs and PSs : Shri S P Gupta Procedures and Rules' for (88%), Smt. Neelam Gera (88%), s m o o t h a n d s y s t e m a t i c and Shri Zile Singh, PS (87%). functioning of office. On the initiative of DG, BPR&D, two This is a major boost to courses were organized by Shri promote acquaintance with Dharmendra Kumar, Guest rules and procedure on an DG BPR&D with staff Lecturer, on 'Office Procedures & ongoing basis. At present, Rules'. On the completion of the practical training is also being All the participants gave good courses, a written test was imparted in the divisions, at the response about the training and conducted of all (34) the desk level. The valuable desired that such courses should participants. The following contribution of the guest lecturer be organized on regular basis in officials secured more than 80% is gratfully acknowledged. the public interest. marks : G e n d e r I s s u e s davp 2006/1312 Bureau of Police Research & Development Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India Brings Police and Prison Issues Center Stage Information on Policing is Just A Click Away! dgbprd@yahoo.co.in Path Breaking Judgements on Police & Prison functioning United Nations - Crime Prevention Guidelines International Agency selects a Police Station in Rajasthan as the best in Asia Training Course on Juvenile Delinquency & Justice Handbook on Anti - Human Trafficking for Investigators MoUs with Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai, Lucknow University & Dr H.S.Gaur University, Sagar to promote RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS VISIT Please see this space again in May for new additions Published, Printed and edited by P.N.Khurana & Designed by Mr. Sanjay Baniwal Deputy Director(R&D), Mr. Tajinder Juneja, Web Master on behalf of Director General, Bureau of Police Research & Development, Government. of India, Ministry of Home affairs, at Block No. 11, 3rd/4th Floor, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi and printed in the office of the DG, BPR&D, New Delhi editoripj@yahoo.co.in & dgbprd@yahoo.co.in Reg No. DELENG/2003/12692