The Central Detective Training Institutes (CDTIs) are playing a vital role in the modernisation of police forces in the country, Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD) Director General A.P. Maheswari said on Monday.
A total of five such centre are working towards developing new investigative skills in police personnel to tackle a wide range of new challenges vis-a-vis terrorists, cybercrime, human trafficking and economic offences, the officer told the media at the CDTI here.
New topics have been added to the CDTI curriculum on narco-terrorism, tactics to tackle insurgency and militancy in northeast India, investigation of terror-related cases, radicalisation of youths, countering cyberterrorism, funding of terrorism, Left-Wing Extremism, collecting of human intelligence and digital crime investigation.
The CDTIs are situated in Chandigarh, Jaipur, Ghaziabad, Hyderabad and Kolkata.
These centres seek feedback from NGOs, social organisations and industrial bodies and rope them in for their training programmes.
--IANS
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