Hyderabad: National Industrial Security Academy, at Hakimpet, Hyderabad has bagged the Union Home Minister’s Trophy for the “BEST POLICE TRAINING INSTITUTION FOR TRAINING OF GAZETTED OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR 2020-21”. This extra-ordinary feat for this Academy was achieved during the serving period of the current CP Hyderabad, Mr. C.V.Anand, who was the previous Director of the Academy during the year under contention.
National Industrial Security Academy of the CISF is a premier national level central training institute imparting training in Industrial Security Management, Disaster Management and Aviation Security to officers of Central Industrial Security Force, sister organizations of CAPFs, state police organizations, foreign police organizations, civil servants and officers of public sector undertaking.
Ministry of Home Affairs conducts a national level screening of various central police training institutes and accordingly BPR&D conducts a survey for best Police Training Institution for the year. All Central and State Government Police Training Academies of the country are in consideration in various categories. After meticulous screening by a Committee constituted by BPR&D on various parameters, NISA was selected as best Training Institution for training of Officers for the year 2020-21.
Mr. C.V.Anand IPS could not attend the award function in BPR&D, Delhi due to the sensitive Dassehra and Milad-Un-Nabi bandobust in Hyderabad City. The DIG, NISA Mr. Srinivas Babu, received the Trophy, Citation and the Home Minister’s Disc from Mr. Amit Shah on his behalf and handed them over to Mr. C.V. Anand today.
The screening for this award is on various parameters such as the capacity of the Academy to train, variety of training, upkeep and maintenance of infrastructure, websites and contents, trainees – trainer Ratio, annual events, social responsibilities, training infrastructures etc. Competing with world class Police training Academies in India it was not an easy task and it required real grit, innovation and upkeep of the Academy with a dedicated team of officers.
Mr. Anand said that during his tenure, the Academy was dedicated towards its mission of becoming a ‘centre of excellence’ in its letter and spirit. Several scientific methods were introduced in physical training, officer’s grooming and in the upkeep of their moral and motivation. Training infrastructure was updated and equipment was modernized to ensure that the best of training facilities was provided to the officer trainees. Despite the challenges of COVID-19 pandemic, the officer trainees were given exposure in horse riding, rock-climbing and extensive jungle-warfare tactics for the first time ever. The quality of indoor training saw a great jump as the Director and all senior officers started taking classes themselves.
After shifting back to his state cadre of Telangana, Mr. C.V.Anand is continuing to stress on the importance of Training in Hyderabad City Police and all DCPs/Jt/Addl.CP and CP personally take the classes for Home Guards/ Constables and SI/Inspector rank officers.
Our Citizen Reporter
Bharat Reddy
Telangana
