Cambridge: The Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, has joined hands with the National Police Academy of India to provide mid-career training for 420 police executives in India.
It is a three-year training program, which will be started in late 2010, under the leadership of a former metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Ian Blair along with the co-direction of Lawrence Sherman, the University's Wolfson Professor of Criminology.
According to an official press release from the University, around 3,500 elite members of Indian Police Service will be participating under the training program, which will constitute top position of Indian policing. The participants will work in 140 groups for eight-week courses in which six will be performed in India which will be followed by fortnight’s training in Cambridge.
The Institute of Criminology imparts a Police Executive Programme at the master’s level and diploma in Applied Criminology and Police Management. The focus of the institute has reached at international stage. Before India, the institute had educated almost 200 chief police officers of the UK that include more than 30 chief constables. It has also widened its impact in Singapore, South Australia, Sweden and Hong Kong.
Moreover, the Indian Government had selected Cambridge's Institute of Criminology based on an international competition. In it, several tenders had come from the Universities of UK, US, Australia and even India (OP Jindahl Global University of Sonipat, Haryana, will be in contract with the Cambridge).
While signing £2.4million contract in Hyderabad, Professor Sherman said, by following the principles of Sir Leon Radzinowicz, the university’s first Professor of Criminology in 1959, the agreement with India presents an example of significant combination of science of criminology with the field of police leadership.
