A meeting of the board of governors (BOG) of National Police Academy (NPA) was held under the chairmanship of Federal Minister for Interior and Chairman BOG Rehman Malik.
The NPA commandant welcomed the participants and briefed them on the agenda of the meeting. The board appreciated the efforts of the National Police Academy for imparting quality training to senior police officers and officials of other law enforcement agencies.
The federal minister for interior stressed on the need for launching courses in cyber crime, anti-terrorism and money-laundering. He directed the National Police Bureau to allocate 25% of foreign courses to officers of the National Police Academy. He assured the board members that he would ensure the implementation of the pay package of NPA employees as per approved summary of the prime minister of Pakistan.
The job task analyses of district police officers-district superintendents of police were approved with the recommendations to prepare curriculum on the findings of JTA. The chairman of the board recommended that the proposed curriculum should include subjects like anti-terrorism and other modern day challenges faced by police. The module for interviewing female victims of violence was also approved. The board recommended that in order to make this module more effective, it should be translated into Urdu.
The board appreciated the efforts of the National Police Academy in formulating the National Training Policy 2012 and approved it in principle.
The proposed reorganisation of the National Police Academy into different specialised sub-units was also approved. The reorganisation of National Police Academy will introduce modern concepts of policing in police training and will enable police officers to face new challenges.