Online training for police personnel on Human Rights

Updated on: Sunday, February 06, 2011

With the objective of establishing people-friendly policing, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) along with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has launched a five-day online training programme on human rights.
 
IGNOU in collaboration with NHRC, has instigated the five-day programme aiming to sensitise and spread awareness about human rights among lower-level police personnel in Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, IGNOU Vice-chancellor V N Rajashekharan Pillai said.

According to NHRC official, the commission receives around 80,000 complaints every year out of which 30,000 are against police personnel.

''With programmes like this, IGNOU aims to bring down the rate of conflicts and crime in the society by extending hands to create awareness among police personnel and equipping them to apply it in their day to day interaction with public,'' Prof Pillai said.

The programme, presently to be taught in Hindi language at IGNOU Convention centre in Maidangarhi here, was launched by NHRC chairperson and former Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan.

He told that, soon the programme would be made available in regional languages too.

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