Centre to train State police forces on new criminal laws
The Union government has rolled out an intensive training strategy for police and prison department personnel across the country on the new criminal laws and to sensitise them to the transition from the colonial legacies to a new system of justice.
In a communication to heads of police forces and prison departments, the Ministry of Home Aairs said Parliament had replaced the three existing laws, namely the Indian Penal Code, 1860; the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973; and the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 by three new progressive and modern pieces of legislation — the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023; Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023; and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023,
The Bureau of Police Research & Development developed a training module.
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The new laws that were aimed at providing speedy justice to the citizens and strengthening the judicial and court management system were based on the principle of access to justice by all and would come into force from July 1.
The Home Ministry said the new criminal law had several new provisions, synchronised with modern-day times and contemporary technologies. They were envisaged at bringing in an era of ease of policing and justice. It was the endeavour of the Union government to reach out to all ranks of police and prison o¡cers in the country to make them aware of the positive and advanced changes so as to equip them with the basic knowledge and understanding of various new provisions.
The Bureau of Police Research & Development (BPR&D), a premier training and research arm of the Home Ministry, had developed the Training of Trainers’ module and various other training programmes for dierent levels of police/prison personnel on the new criminal laws. Integration had been completed with the ‘Integrated Government Online Training’ (iGOT) portal to make the courses available to the trainees.