SHILLONG, Dec 2: The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), which has achieved remarkable success in anti-terrorist operations in Jammu and Kashmir, has set-up a counter-insurgency school in Assam?s Dayapur to teach its own personnel combat operations, reports PTI. The school, set up on the pattern of Army?s counter-insurgency and jungle warfare school in Mizoram?s Vairangte, has already trained six CRPF companies during 2002, top CRPF officials said here. Already courses of counter-insurgency and anti-terrorist operations were regularly conducted at two of the paramilitary force?s Central Training Colleges (CTC) in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu and Nanded in Maharashtra. Claiming that the ?neutralisation ratio? of militants and anti-social elements by CRPF was impressive in Jammu and Kashmir even that of the combined forces of agencies like Army, BSF and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, the officials said till September the figure read as 1:5.85 (CRPF: militants and other anti-socials) as against 1:5.02 (forces: militants and other anti-nationals). They elaborated that against the killing of every CRPF man, 5.85 such elements were annihilated till September in this year, while against the killing of one man from combined forces, 5:02 elements were ?neutralised? during the time. Besides the existing places where trainings were conducted, two-three additional locations were required to put battalions under ?pre-induction? training in view of the new counter-insurgency role envisaged for CRPF, the officials said.
Referring to the training methods, the officials said three two-sided exercises ? aman, prahar and falcon ? were staged at different places with two companies pitted on each side at different places. Training in the field was imparted at designated places, and some of these locations were being strengthened by augmenting infrastructure.
In its three existing Central Training Colleges, the third one at Neemukh in Madhya Pradesh, the force organised in-service, instructional and promotionals courses for the gazetted, sub-ordinate and under officers besides the constables.