KTDS Police Training Academy of Narsingarh , Agartala is fast emerging as the new knowledge hub, especially for the people in khakis. The Academy has already earned its fame for imparting training to policemen as well as other force personnel with high standard of professional acumen enhancing their skill. On its 56th raising Day on Sunday the KTDSPTA got one more feather in its cap as it has been linked with National Knowledge Network -NKN. Tripura Police’s IG Training GS Rao has launched the NKN in the Academy as the Chief Guest on Sunday.
Rao said, steps are afoot to link up the Academy with other similar institutions of the country so that expertise, skill and professional guidance can be exchanged.
“Though we are fully and efficiently utilizing the BP&RD fund that is sent to us, still there are financial strains. Bringing experts or specialists from outside or to sending our trainees to outside institutions for acquiring any special knowledge or for better skill development -both entails huge expenditure. With better internet connectivity we shall now be able to go online for the same”, the IGP said as he added his personal experience in the past as a trainee in the Academy which had then been Police Training College with minimal infrastructures or resources.
Dilip Ray, present Principal of the Academy who took several special initiatives to uplift the intuition to a higher level of training and skill development facility said, with the NKN introduction a high-speed backbone connectivity will now enable nation and state wide knowledge and information sharing. It will also help collaborative research, development and innovation in police training , help create a platform for online training and also facilitate ultra high speed backbone for e-governance.
Ray said as many as 1655 police personnel have been trained in 2021-22- among them 07 recruit constable, 1525 in service officers and 18 newly recruited DSPs.
Apart from police men 38 forest guards have also been trained here in 2021-22. As many as 66 police personnel have been imparted training on Cyber Forensics at Cyber lab since its inception in February 2021 under the CCPWC project.
“The major areas of the training include field crafts, field tactics and weapon handling as well as Unarmed combat, Junior Cadet Corps. Courses include basic trainings for newly recruited constables , sub Inspectors , pre basic and post basic training of DSPs and Inservice trainings”, Ray said adding that indoor training courses included among others matters relating to Crime Against Women, gender sensitization, Crime Against children and Child rights, Juvenile justice ( Care and Protection) Acts, developing Specialist Investigators, criminology, investigation of heinous crimesm CAW, POCSO, RTA and NDPS act cases, scientific aids to investigation, trial of cases and court management, cyber forensics, cyber crimes, mobile forensics under IT acts, cuber awarenessm cyber security, VIP security, security , protective duties, PSO training, intelligence , interrogation and surveillance, smart policing, ethical policing and community policing.
On the occasion of the 56th raising Day a beautiful sculpture was also erected in the KTDS PTA campus which was designed by Ray himself- who happens to be an artist too. Four policemen , one DSP , one Inspector and two constables who had very recently retired from the KTDSPTA were also felicitated on the occasion.
The KTDS PTA was first set up on May 1, 1967 as Police Training College and it was then located at Arundhutinagar police line. On September 23, 1985 it was shifted tom present location at Narasingarh. On June 24, 2009 the it was renamed after former DGP Kumar Trishul Dhari Singh . It was upgraded to Police Training Academy on September 17, 2011.
