{"id":105151,"date":"2025-08-25T18:23:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=105151"},"modified":"2025-08-25T18:23:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:53:31","slug":"goa-police-get-first-ever-training-on-inclusive-policing-and-rpwd-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=105151","title":{"rendered":"Goa Police get First-Ever Training on inclusive policing and RPWD Act."},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Goa Khabar:In a move towards inclusive law enforcement, the Goa Police successfully concluded its first-ever four-day sensitisation and awareness training on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPwD) Act, 2016, held from August 18\u201321, 2025 held in Panjim.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The program, themed \u201cInclusive Policing for a Barrier-Free Goa,\u201d was organised by the Department for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD) and the State Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities, in collaboration with Goa Police and iProbono India as knowledge partners. It aimed to train police personnel to engage with persons with disabilities with empathy, dignity, and sensitivity.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">At the valedictory session, Smt. Varsha Sharma, IPS, Dy Inspector General of Police, commended the initiative and expressed her personal appreciation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;This training touched me deeply. We are all equal\u2014we learn in the same schools, live in the same society. It is our duty to support persons with disabilities, even in our busiest schedules. This sensitisation is essential for every police officer,\u201dshe said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">On behalf of the State Control Police Room, Deputy Superintendent of Police Roy Pereira extended gratitude and presented mementos to all resource persons and supporting departments as a token of appreciation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The training has been hailed as a landmark initiative, with senior officials emphasizing the need to extend such sessions to taluka-level police stations across Goa.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Officials believe the program sets a national example, positioning Goa as a leader in inclusive, barrier-free policing that upholds the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Training Highlights<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Over 650 police personnel from the State Police Control Room, Traffic Police, and Pink Force were trained in batches across four days. Sessions covered legal rights, accessibility, communication techniques, and social perspectives of disability.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The training was highly interactive, with police participants remarking that such sessions were \u201cmuch-needed\u201d and gave them \u201cnew knowledge insights and confidence\u201d to handle real-life situations.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Inspiring Sessions<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">DySP Pereira noted that with over 5% of Goa\u2019s population living with disabilities, equipping police officers with such skills was a necessity long overdue.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">On the second day, Dr. Mriselda Montero, Deputy Director, Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, graced the training and emphasised the urgent need for sensitisation of police personnel.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">On the third day, SP of Traffic Cell, Pramod Shirvoikar, movingly shared his relative\u2019s story of turning blind. He reminded officers that while sighted people enjoy the beauty of nature, persons with disabilities often overcome far greater challenges\u2014excelling in sports, UPSC exams, and various professions. \u201cThey can do everything that others can, if given the right support,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Mr Taha Haaziq, Secretary to the State Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities, highlighted that Goa is the first state in India to publish a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for police on interacting with persons with disabilities, making the state a pioneer in inclusive policing.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Advocate Kaurvaki Mohanty, Program Manager at iProbono India, called the SOP a \u201cprogressive and practical tool\u201d to guide law enforcement.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Senior journalist and Goa State\u00a0 Disability Advisory Board Member, Prakash Kamat, narrated real-life cases where timely police intervention could prevent injustice, stressing the importance of awareness and made a forceful case for effective implementation of Police Helpline abd SoP for PswD.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Other resource persons included Advocate Amla Shejwadkar, Ms. Zehra Naqvi, Mr. Vishant Nagvekar (Advisory Member to the State Commissioner), Mr. Mahadev D. Sawant (Advisory Member of state commissioner for PWDs, Executive member of NAB GOA and program compere), Mr. Prasad Joshi (Deaf Association of Goa), Ms. Jamila Haaziq (Office of the State Commissioner), and Josephine Fernandes, who provided sign language interpretation throughout the sessions.(EoM)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goa Khabar:In a move towards inclusive law enforcement, the Goa Police successfully concluded its first-ever four-day sensitisation and awareness training on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPwD) Act, 2016, held from August 18\u201321, 2025 held in Panjim. The program, themed \u201cInclusive Policing for a Barrier-Free Goa,\u201d was organised by the Department for Empowerment of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":105152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,6],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-105151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-155","category-6","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105153,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105151\/revisions\/105153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}