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Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (PS/SB)
Mangalore, Mar 29: Police commissioner Seemanth Kumar Singh said that there is a need to create awareness among police to take preventive measures to stop incidents of custodial deaths.
He was speaking after inaugurating a workshop organized by the commissionerate at his office for police officers on prevention of custodial deaths and human rights violation by police on Tuesday March 29. The workshop was on the topic ‘prevention of custody deaths and human rights violation by police’.
Singh said police to avoid such crimes during interrogations as it is not acceptable in civil society. He also suggested the police to study and follow the scientific methods of interrogation.
Though, no such incident has taken place under the limits of commissionerate, this workshop is taken up as a preventive measure. Constables, Head Constables, ASIs, PSIs and ACPs are participants of this workshop, he said.
Retired SP Ibrahim and retired deputy SP T C M Shareef were the resource persons for the daylong workshop. As many as 100 police officers took part in the seminar.