Beef taken off menu of Kerala Police Academy

Move triggers major controversy

The decision of Kerala Police Academy to take off beef from the menu of the canteen has triggered a controversy.

The authorities removed beef from the list of food items served at the canteen of the Kerala Police Academy about a week ago. With the decision inviting opposition from a section, the police authorities decided that the food committees in respective camps may take a call on including beef in their menu.

The training session for over 4,000 police personnel began at various police camps in the state on Sunday including Police Academy Thrissur. Beef was taken off for the trainees and the staff engaged in training at these camps.

The training is going on at the KAP 3rd Battalion headquartered at Adoor in Pathanamthitta district, KAP 2nd battalion headquartered at Muttikulangara, in Palakkad district, KAP 4th battalion Mangattuparamaba in Kannur district and Malappuram special police camp,

■ AUTHORITIES DECIDED to serve chicken. Earlier, beef was served to trainee police personnel twice in a week.

Malappuram.

The authorities decided to serve chicken procured from the poultry farm run in police academy premises as meat. Earlier the menu for trainee cops comprise fish, chicken, beef, omelette and fish fry. Beef was served twice in a week.

Meanwhile, ADGP training denied that there was ban on serving beef in any police camp.

It may be recalled the “beef fry” tweet on the official twitter handle of Kerala Tourism on Makarsankaranti day had triggered a major controversy. There was a deliberate attempt from certain quarters to add communal colour to the tourism department’s tweet highlighting Kerala’s popular delicacy “Beef Ularthiyathu”.

A section Twitterati attacked the CPM led state government alleging that the tweet on “beef fry” was deliberately posted on the Makarsankranti day.