Writer: Dr Rupali Jeswal

“Mindset: Continuous learning through innovation in practice and professionalism to achieve national coherence.”

“Simply put policing is a verb, meaning action – the quality and effectiveness of this action depends on wealth of knowledge, training and synchronisation within the various departments.”

Police departments need to develop into a learning organisation to be ahead, no longer can the departments rely on methods of the past to just recruit, train and conduct occasional specialised courses.  Learning organisations indulge in constant, regular empowerment and enhancement trainings along with refreshers, table-top planning exercises for rapid response (these are being conducted in western countries to improve the ability of local jurisdictions to prepare, protect and respond), on-the-job trainings and mentoring programmes so the senior level can lead the new officers and set leadership by example – efforts through this system bring a culture of dispersed leadership.

Writer: Dr Rupali Jeswal and Damien Martin
In traditional warfare the objective is to destroy the adversary and occupy the territory, the guerrilla’s aim and objective is to control the population. By using blind terrorism the insurgents win latent support and by selective terrorism they are able to isolate the counter-forces and terrorise the people into silence. Insurgents always start with a cause and nothing else; a counter-insurgent starts with everything else but the cause. Nepalese and Filipino Maoist outfits have long been suspected of providing rhetorical and material support to the CPI(M). Maoists are acquiring weapons through Bangladesh, Myanmar and possibly Nepal. Some members of the Communist Party of Philippines (CPP), one of the major communist insurgent outfits of the world, had met Indian Maoist leaders in Chhattisgarh. Agencies also claimed that CPI (Maoist) cadres are undergoing training in urban guerrilla warfare in different Indian cities