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Creation of R&D cells in police suggested

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI NOV. 23. Identifying priority areas of policing and ensuring that the cost of its services are commensurate with the kind of service being provided and creation of a research and development cell in every State are among the recommendations of the 34th All-India Police Science Congress which concluded in Port Blair (Andaman and Nicobar) today.

The congress, which deliberated on "delivery of services by police: quality and cost" and "cyber crime: prevention and investigation", said the best practices and initiatives of individual police officers should be identified by the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR and D) in a systematic manner and a mechanism should be adopted for their dissemination. The best value policing should be achieved. The meet identified various functions of policing which could be privatised to ensure more effective services at lesser cost. It suggested that charges could be levied for services such as passport verification and verification of domestic servants and security survey, according to a press release issued from Port Blair. Though there was need to make policing a service to the community, there was also the question of the costs of the special and routine activities undertaken by the police.

Delivering the valedictory address, the Director-General of Police (Training), Karnataka, S. Krishna Murthy, stressed the need for developing scientific temperament in police functioning.

He said certain sovereign duties should be performed only by the police, irrespective of the cost.

However, it needed to be ensured that the services provided were effective and operationally economical. He wanted community policing to be done on a regular basis.

The Director-General of Police, BPR and D, L.C. Amarnathan, and the Inspector-General of Police, A and N, Alok Verma, spoke.

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