
Hyderabad city police bags SKOCH award
The Hindu
Pre-recruitment training initiative gets recognition
Hyderabad city police bagged Skoch Award (Silver) for the year 2021 under ‘Police & Safety’ category for its police pre-recruitment training programme project.
It was also a finalist for its two other initiatives — Job Connect and Command Control Centre.
The pre-recruitment training programme was city police’s community-oriented policing initiative, aimed at imparting skills to police job aspirants. Operational since March 2015, the initiative showed quick results, with as many as 267 candidates featuring in the final list that year.

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