News Excerpt:
The Central Government has rolled out an intense training program for the police and prison department personnel throughout the country on the new criminal laws.
About the News:
- The main aim is to sensitize them to the transition from the colonial legacies to a new system of justice. The Indian government is replacing three outdated criminal laws with new, modern legislation.
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Old Laws Replaced
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New Laws Implemented
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- Indian Penal Code (1860)
- Code of Criminal Procedure (1973)
- Indian Evidence Act (1872)
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- Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023
- Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023
- Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam 2023
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- Effective from July 1, 2024, these laws aim to expedite justice delivery and enhance the judicial system, prioritizing universal access to justice.
- The ministry emphasized that the new criminal law includes several contemporary provisions aligned with modern times and technologies, envisioning a more efficient policing and justice system.
How it will be done:
- To facilitate this, the Bureau of Police Research & Development (BPR&D), a key research and training body under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), has devised comprehensive training modules for trainers and various other programs tailored to different levels of police and prison personnel.
- These resources are now available on the Integrated Government Online Training (iGOT) portal for easy access. Furthermore, BPR&D has shared these training modules with all States and Union Territories, urging them to conduct training sessions in their respective Police Training Institutes.
- The MHA encourages active participation from Heads of police forces and prison departments in organizing intensive training sessions for all personnel, ensuring no one is left behind.
- States and UTs are requested to allocate police and prison officers for these training sessions and collaborate with BPR&D for necessary resources and support.
- Additionally, the National Informatics Centre (NIC) is conducting online training sessions focusing on the technical aspects of implementing the new criminal laws.
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Definition of Police:
- The police is an important organ of the Justice System of the State.
- The term ‘police’ refers primarily to agents of the State whose function is the maintenance of law and order especially the enforcement of the regular criminal Code.
- “Police' and 'Public order' are State subjects under the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India.
BPRD:
- The Government of India in 1970 formally established the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D), under the Ministry of Home Affairs giving a new orientation to the existing Police Research and Advisory Council (1966) with the primary objective of modernization of the police force.
- The Bureau is actively supporting states in the modernization efforts of both State Police Forces and Correctional Administration.
- Initially established with two divisions, Research, Statistics & Publication, and Development, the Bureau expanded its scope on the advice of the Gore Committee by establishing a Training Division in 1973.
- More recently, the BPR&D has been tasked with anchoring and coordinating the initiatives of the National Police Mission.
Key initiatives by BPRD:
- VIMARSH 2023: Vimarsh 2023 is jointly conducted by the Bureau of Police Research & Development (BPR&D), the Department of Telecom (DoT), and the Telecom Centre of Excellence (TCOE) to find indigenous solutions for some of the pressing issues of Cyber Security and Cyber Crime prevention, detection and investigation. BPR&D has been nominated Centre of Excellence for the purpose of 5G applications use cases within MHA.
- KAVACH-2023: KAVACH 2023 is the National Level Cyber Security Hackathon, jointly conducted by MoE’s Innovation Cell, AICTE, BPR&D, and I4C, MHA to identify innovative ideas and technological solutions for addressing the cyber security and cybercrime challenges confronting Law Enforcement Agencies and common citizens.
- Manthan (Intellithon): India’s first-of-its-kind hackathon focused on National Security and Surveillance and enabling the use of new technologies including Artificial Intelligence and deep learning by our Law Enforcement Agencies aims at Atma Nirbhar Bharat conducted with AICTE, launched in 2021 through a digital collaborative platform developed indigenously by Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell.
- Smart India Hackathon-2020: NCR&IC, BPR&D partnered with the AICTE, MHRD to conduct the hackathon, SIH-2020, which was organized from 1st to 3rd August 2020.
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