Govt may revamp police research bureau:Rajnath Singh

Amid realisation that the country's ace police think tank is "not adequately equipped" to meet future challenges, the government is now looking at overhauling the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD).

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has invited an Expression of Interest (EoI) for preparing a detailed project report on restructuring the think tank from "reputed and expert" government institutions.

The move comes as the government feels that the efforts of the 47-year-old BPRD are "yet to fully meet the huge expectations" and a need for restructuring has been "strongly felt" in various quarters, a senior official said.

In May this year, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh himself had spoken about the need for restructuring the think tank to make it vibrant for police and prison



services.

"In the contemporary world, the expectations from police have grown manifold. Many spheres of human activities, hitherto unknown to police system, have now come into the fold of policing, due to global cyber village fast transforming our lives. As a result, the mandate of a premier research organisation, which the BPR&D is, needs to be revised and it has to incorporate all those areas which policing of future is expected to focus on," the notice inviting EoI said.

It went on to note that the BPRD, with its present mandate and human resources, is "not adequately equipped to meet the future challenges" of policing and prison services.

This "strongly calls" for a thorough overhaul of the existing machinery of research and development through the intervention of technology and human resource development.