Police Training

(1) The State Government shall establish a Police Training Academy at the State Level and as many Police Training Colleges and Police Training Schools as deemed necessary for ensuring efficient post-induction training of all directly recruited police personnel in various ranks, pre-promotion training for all those promoted to higher levels and such other general and specialized in-service training courses for police personnel of different ranks and categories as may be required from time to time. (2) The State Government shall also provide for appointment, by rules, of appropriate number of officers from the police service, or paramilitary forces or armed forces or other professional organizations, in such Police Training Academy, College and School, after careful selection having due regard to aptitude, academic qualifications, professional competence, experience and integrity. The State Government shall evolve a scheme of monetary and other incentives to attract and retain the best of the available talent in the service to the faculties of such training institutions. (3) No police officer shall be deployed on duty without undergoing and passing any basic training as may be prescribed. No Police Officer shall be promoted to any higher rank without undergoing and passing pre-promotion training as may be prescribed.