Police School of Public Disorder and Riot Management Mardan. PHOTO: FILE
DIG Training Muhammad Ali Gandapur and AWKUM Registrar Sher Alam Khan signed the agreement, according to a handout.
The decision to collaborate was announced in 2015, according to the university’s website, when faculty members from AWKUM held a training event at the police school in May, 2015. The agreement will allow for cooperation and collaboration between the university and the school.
Both the parties will work together for research, development and capacity building of trainee police and students of the university.
They also agreed to cooperate in training officers in the following areas – mob-handling, negotiation skills, mob psychology, anti-riot equipment, and emergency situations. The MoU will help improve quality of training, education and research. It will also allow exchange of trainees, and the placement of university students at the police school. University faculty will hold lectures, workshops and seminars and will help evaluate courses at the police school.
Both institutes will organise collaborative activities for mutual benefit.
The ceremony was also attended by DIG Headquarters Muhammad Alam Shinwari, DIG Investigation Dr Masood Saleem, police school Director Colonel (retd) Zafar Gul and Principal Mushtaq Ahmad, the AWKUM registrar and his team.
The past
In February, a meeting between various public and private universities, educational institutions and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa police took place at the CPO. It was decided there was a dire need to mutually benefit from each other’s experiences in their
respective fields.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 3rd, 2016.
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