Bureau of Police Research and Development

The Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D), (

Law enforcement in India Cross civil service: Indian Police Service and Indian Revenue Service Federal police Andaman and Nicobar Police Border Security Force (BSF) Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Chandigarh Police Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (COBRA) Delhi Police Dadra and Nagar Haveli Police Daman and Diu Police Home Guard Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Lakshadweep Police National Security Guard (NSG) Puducherry Police Railway Protection Force (RPF) Rapid Action Force (RAF) Special Protection Group (SPG) Federal Intelligence Directorate of Income Tax Intelligence and Criminal Investigation Directorate General of Income Tax Investigation Investigation Division of the Central Board of Direct Taxes Chief Commissioner of Income Tax Central Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D) Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) Intelligence Bureau (IB) Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) National Investigation Agency (NIA) Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) National Technical Research Organisation State Andaman and Nicobar Police Andhra Pradesh Police Arunachal Pradesh Police Assam Police Bihar Police Chhattisgarh Police Goa Police Gujarat Police Haryana Police Himachal Pradesh Police Jammu and Kashmir Police Jharkhand Police Karnataka Police Kerala Police Madhya Pradesh Police Maharashtra Police Manipur Police Meghalaya Police Mizoram Police Nagaland Police Odisha Police Punjab Police Rajasthan Police Sikkim Police Tamil Nadu Police Telangana Police Tripura Police Uttar Pradesh Police Uttarakhand Police West Bengal Police Metropolitan Asansol–Durgapur Police Commissionerate Bangalore City Police Barrackpore Police Commissionerate Bhubaneswar–Cuttack Police Commissionerate Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate Coimbatore City Police Chennai Metropolitan Police Howrah Police Commissionerate Hyderabad City Police Kolkata Police Kochi City Police Kollam City Police Mumbai Police Nagpur Police Patna Police Pune Police Siliguri Police Commissionerate Thrissur City Police Thiruvananthapuram City Police Visakhapatnam City Police

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• To set up an Advisory Committee to guide the work relating to Correctional Administration.

• Publication of reports, newsletters, bulletins and preparation of Audio Visual aids, etc. in the field of Correctional Administration.

• To prepare uniform Training Module including course, syllabi, curriculum, etc. For providing training at various levels to the Prison staff in the field of Correctional Administration.

• To review training programmes keeping in view the changing social conditions, introduction of new scientific techniques and other related aspects.

• Coordination of Research Studies conducted by RICAs and other Academic/Research Institutes in Correctional Administration and to frame guidelines for conduct of research studies/surveys in consultation with the State Governments.

• Assimilation and dissemination of relevant information to the States in the field of Correctional Administration.

• Analysis and study of prison statistics and problems of general nature affecting Prison Administration.

Correctional Administration

• To liaise with the Directorate of Training of the Department of Personnel in relation inter-alia to training aids projects and fellowships under the United Nations Development Programme, UNESCO & Colombo Plan etc.

• To help in the development of libraries in the Central and State Police training institutions.

• To act as a clearing house for information relating to Syllabi, methods of training, teaching aids, training programmes and literature on various aspects of police work etc. from India and abroad.

• To suggest the establishment of new training institutions under the Centre as necessary from time to time.

• To organize the annual Symposium of the Heads of Police Training Institutions and short Seminars on various aspects of Police training.

• To assist in the training of police officers of various ranks at appropriate non-police institutions inside and outside India.

• To create and maintain a circulating library of films for the use of various police training institutions.

• To standardize equipment for training and training aids and to arrange for their production and supply to the various training institutions.

• To distribute relevant literature to Inspectors General/DIG(Training) in the States for circulation to officers in order to familiarize them with training concepts and to strengthen training consciousness among the higher ranks.

• To prepare, in coordination with the police training institutions, standard manuals, textbooks, pamphlets, lecture notes, case studies, practical exercises and other educative literature for use in these institutions.

• Work relating to the establishment of the Central Medico Legal Institute and the Central Traffic Institute.

• To help devise new refresher, promotion, specialist and orientation courses considered necessary for the different grades and kinds of police offers.

• To evaluate training programmes with a view to securing such standardization and uniformity in the training arrangements including courses, syllabi and curricula for various ranks in the States and Union Territories as may be desirable and to suggest modifications and improvements that may be considered necessary from time to time to meet new challenges and problems.

• Central Detective Training Schools, Kolkata, Hyderabad & Chandigarh.

• To review from time to time the arrangements for Police training and the needs of the country in this field in the changing social conditions and the introduction of scientific techniques in training and in police work and to formulate and coordinate training policies and programmes in the field of police administration and management.

Training Division

• Work relating to Police Research & Development Advisory Council and its Standing Committees, other than on police research.

• Police publicity and police publicity files, police weeks and parades.

• Application of computer technology in various fields of police work.

• Liaison with the National laboratories, Indian Ordnance Factories, various scientific organizations and institutions and public and private sector undertakings in the above fields, coordination of development programmes and stimulating indigenous production of police equipment.

• Review of the performance of various types of equipment used by the police forces in India and development of new equipment in the following fields:
  • Arms and Ammunition
  • Riot Control Equipment
  • Traffic Control Equipment
  • Police Transport
  • Miscellaneous scientific equipment and scientific aids to investigation

Development Division

• Publication of:
  • Police Research & Development Journal
  • Crime in India
  • Indian Police Journal
  • Accidental Deaths and Suicides
  • Research Reports and News Letters
  • Reports, Reviews, other journals and books relating to matters connected with police work.

• Documentation relating to Police Science and Criminology.

• Statistical analysis of trends of crime.

• Maintenance of all India statistics of crime.

• Participation in the work of the United Nations in the field of prevention of crime and treatment of offenders.

• Participation in social defence and crime prevention programmes.

• Police Science Congress & other conferences and seminars relating to study of police problems.

• Work relating to Standing Committee on Police Research.

• Assistance of Police Research programmes in States and Union Territories, processing and coordination of research projects, sponsoring extra mutal research.

• Analysis and study of crime and problems of general nature affecting the police, e.g.,
  • Trends and causes of crime.
  • Prevention of crime-preventive measures, their effectiveness and relationship with crime.
  • Organization, strength, administration, methods, procedures and techniques of the police forces and their modernization, police act and manuals.
  • Improvements in methods of investigation, utility, and results of introducing scientific aids and punishment.
  • Inadequacy of laws.
  • Juvenile delinquency.
  • Police Uniform, badges, medals, decorations, colours, and flags, police drill, warrant of procedure etc.

Research Division

U.S ambassador to INDIA, with officer of BPR&D

Functions of the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D) are different for each of the four divisions and are as follows:

Functions

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