Jharkhand cops complete anti-naxalite training in Gujarat

Vadodara, Jun 15 (UNI) A total of 612 Jharkhand police constables today completed their 6-month-long training in a Gujarat State Police Training School (PTS) here to effectively deal with the growing naxalite menace in the newly created state.

To mark the occasion, the institute organised a passing-out ceremony at the PTS ground today which was attended among others by Gujarat Director General of Police (DGP) P C Pandey and in-charge PTS principal and Vadodara range special Inspector General of police Rakesh Asthana.

This is for the first time that cops from another state took advanced training in the Gujarat police training school. According to PTS sources, another 646 cops from Jharkhand were currently being trained in Gujarat's two similar police training institutes at Junagadh and Chowki.

The Gujarat government had agreed to conduct the training programme for the new recruits on the request of the Jharkhand government as the latter faced lack of infrastructure and required facilities to impart proper training to their cops. Mr Asthana, who is also heading the SIT set up to investigate into the 2002 Godhra train carnage, said besides being taught about surveillance, maintainance of law and order, public dealing and use of sophisticated firearms, the new recruits had been given special training to successfully carry out anti-naxalite and anti-dacoity operations.

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