SWAT: (DNA) –  The Regional Police Training Centre Swat has received ‘e-Learning’ curricula from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to enhance the core policing and law enforcement skills of its police officers to international standards.

Syed Fida Hussain Shah, DIG (Training) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police, inaugurated the e-Learning Centre along with UNODC Country Representative Cesar Guedes at the Swat Training Centre, the fourth e-Learning Centre for the KP Police; and the 56th established for other law enforcement agencies in Pakistan by UNODC, says a press release.

The DIG Training KP Police on this occasion lauded UNODC’s efforts to introduce ‘e-Learning’  as a modern and innovative method of delivering training to law enforcement personnel on over a hundred topics covering the prevention, detection, and investigation of crimes.  He said, “e-Learning is a great initiative of UNODC to address the contemporary law enforcement capacity building and training needs in the context that KP has passed through multidimensional internal security challenges including terrorism, with devastating effect to the lives and liberties of the people of the province. These challenges necessitated the police to be equipped with the latest in modern investigation equipment, knowledge, and methods to effectively counter the menace of crime and terrorism”.