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India’s first coastal policing academy
March 16 , 2018
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- Union home ministry recently sanctioned the launch of the National Academy of Coastal Policing (NACP).
- The country’s first national academy to train police forces to effectively safeguarding the Indian shoreline will start functioning in Devbhumi Dwarka district of Gujarat from April 2018.
- It is to be situated in Gujarat's Fisheries Research Centre located in coastal Okha in Devbhoomi Dwarka district.
- The Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD), Home ministries’ policing think tank, will pilot the establishment and running of the academy.
- The first-of-its-kind national coastal policing academy will be created and run by a team of paramilitary and defence forces, the academy will sharpen the skills of marine forces of coastal States.
- The Border Security Force (BSF), Indian Navy and Indian Coast Guard (ICG) will form core to run academy. The BSF will also provide security to campus.
- It will have faculty from Indian Navy, ICG and BSF.
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