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Police to get lessons on dealing with minorities

National Commission for Minorities (NCM) has prepared a special module and an experimental programme for National Police Academy (NPA) to give few lessons to the state police on handling minorities based issues.

NCM sources said, the aim of this experimental programme is to reduce the gap between the minority community and the local police.

After Bharatpur violence last year, which killed at least nine persons in a clash between two communities over a land dispute and a controversial police firing at Forbesganj in Bihar, NCM planned to have this curriculum in the police academy for better treatments of minorities.

At a recent meeting held between State Commission of Minorities and NCM, the state commission blamed police personnel for the bad behaviour and asked for a change in attitude from police.

Talking to Millennium Post, Wajahat Habibullah, NCM Chairperson, said, 'We organised our annual convention, but this year we have decided to have a theme. NPA will design the whole programme with help of our members and will try to implement eventually to all the state police'.

The pilot programme of this special training will begin with Rajasthan Police Academy in the month of June.

An official from NCM said, 'We will begin our programme from Rajasthan and later the initiative will include more state polices. We are in discussion with state polices to participate in this programme'.

Sources said, under this unique initiative in the curriculum, NCM has suggested NPA to deploy different caste of police personnel while forming a police group to deal with minorities affected cases.

According to NCM, such an approach would reduce a major source of grievance in the Muslim community, increase the trust between the police and the people they are policing.

The course will be designed and executed by retired police officers, senior journalists and senior government officials across India who have covered riots in their tenure.

Habibullah further said, 'We want to change the police perception while dealing with minorities'.

Earlier, killing of four Muslim youths in June last year in Bihar had sparked a war of words between the state government and a national panel for minorities.

Time and again, various states police are trying hard to bridge the gap between minorities and police.

In the month of April, Mumbai anti terrorism squad, launched an initiative during summer vacation, where 15 college students belonging to the minority community visited the ATS office to learn Marathi from the policemen and in exchange, they taught Urdu to the men in khaki.
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