Cops to turn into crime scene investigators.
It’s a sensible initiative that is being taken by many Indian states to empower its law enforcement officers with forensic training. With the evolving technologies, criminals are making full use of them to execute their criminal activities. And in such a scenario, the law enforcement’s old methods fall flat as they are not acquainted with the technology and thus many crimes go unnoticed.
Recently the Karnataka state government announced a scheme to train police constables in forensic science, with a view to curb terrorism and major crimes, particularly in the light of the recent serial bomb blasts in Bangalore. This is part of government’s effort at modernising the State police and ensuring that they are tuned to the changing nature of crimes. After the completion of the training, the police constables will be designated as crime scene investigators.
Around 876 police constables would be trained under the program which is set to be launched on October 13. The second batch of the same program would begin after the first batch is over and would consist of police constables from various police stations, railway police, women police and the traffic police. It is worth noting that Karnataka, which is a leader in forensic science among the police forces of the country, is the first State to evolve such a system. As an extension to the training programme, around 1000 CDs of the training module would be provided to all police stations in the state.
