Creating a revolution, Student Police Cadet lays a platform for bright future to fight against crime

Gurugram, July 23: Hoping Student Police Cadet programme would lead to a silent revolution over the years by focusing on character building by imparting moral values to budding minds; the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh launched the nationwide programme in Gurugram.

Taking a different route, the Home Minister said that the education these days stressed more on mere book reading with little attention being paid towards character building of students, which shows negative effects on society in terms of increased crime. SPC is a very good initiative which will be launched initially in Government schools and later expanded to cover all schools.

He further added that coping with rapid modernization and cut-throat competition; schools have focused all their attention towards building careers and rising incomes, creating tremendous pressure among the young minds. While the dawn of new technologies, internet, and social media have helped our children keep pace with the changing times, it has adversely impacted our society as it has witnessed the breakdown of the traditional family system and worrying rise in incidents of crimes and rapes.

 

Rajnath Singh said the SPC programme would help in making students responsible citizens by inculcating values of respect to the elderly, discipline, social responsibility and through police-student interaction. The youth of tomorrow who emerge out of such a programme would stand the ethical values of social commitment and be aware of social evils such as drugs, alcohol abuse, intolerance, and vandalism.

Earlier the Home Minister launched the theme song and training manual of SPC prepared by the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D). He also presented cash awards to winners of Logo and motto competition. He also handed over the SPC flag to Haryana Platoon Commander.

The SPC programme focuses on students of Classes 8 & 9 and special care has been taken to ensure that it does not lead to an increase in the workload of the students. The programme does not have any prescribed textbook nor is any exam envisaged. Only one class in a month is proposed. The programme seeks to cover broadly two kinds of topics, - crime prevention and control; and values and ethics. 

In his address, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal said the SPC will assist in social construction through personality building of students. He said the students have undergone SPC training will be given an advantage in police recruitment.