Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Feb 21: “Kashmir police needs to reaffirm their commitment towards the legacy of humaneness that they have inherited to deliver better services to the people and, the development of soft skill programme was just an attempt to reiterate this trait in them”, stated Inspector General of Police A G Mir on the valedictory function of 5-day Soft Skill Development Programme held at College of Education Srinagar here today.
Inspector General of Police A G Mir in his address said that the programme for development of Soft Skills was conceived after accessing the perception of the public during public interactions on various visits to different districts in the last year.
“It was felt that during the last 25 years of turmoil the people of our state have faced immense hardships, the expectations of people towards J&K police also increased in these times. He said that Police work often requires the exercise of independent judgment within limited time frames; and this exercise of independent judgment must also follow proscribed procedures and protocols of law. Human life as it is; is probably a set of experiences which can be so varied that to formulate a set of rules and protocols to deal with all of them is actually impossible’, he said.
Earlier, Farooq Ahmad Staff Officer to IGP Kashmir in his inaugural address said that about 11000 police personnel were trained in developing Soft Skills by a team experts from University of Delhi headed by Dr Pamela Singla. The training was imparted in all the districts headquarters of the Kashmir valley.
Speaking on the occasion Dr Pamela Singla said that the purpose of the training was to introduce soft skills such as negotiation and communication, listening skills, ethics and professional conduct based on a public service mindset. The training also covered ethics in policing and applying soft skills in the context of community-based policing.
DIG North J P Singh, DIG Central A Mujtaba , DIG South Vijay Kumar , SSP Srinagar Amit Kumar, SP Ganderbal Shahid Mehraj, SP Budgam Mohammad Irshad, all Zonal SP’s of Srinagar, officers of CRPF , Principal College of Education Parveen Pandith and officers of J&K Bank were also present on this occasion.