Kiran Bedi advocates for Domestic Violence and Drug Abuse Treatment Programme
“There have been no police reforms for the last 60 years and there is a dearth of research on policing in the country,” said Dr. Kiran Bedi, while delivering the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Silver Jubilee Lecture in the university campus.
Dr. Bedi said judicial reforms are also least researched. Judicial reforms and police reforms are linked as there can be no police reforms without reforms in the judicial system.
She added that as per a recent survey by CNN-IBN, public has more faith in the judiciary than in the police. IGNOU can be the agents of change by helping train police lower ranks in computer basics, which will empower them to serve citizens better.
Dr. Bedi advocated the inclusion of two programmes by IGNOU, on Domestic Violence and Drug Abuse Treatment.
Dr. Bedi added that drug abuse treatment, a field in which she has been actively involved for the last 21 years, urgently needs trained counselors.
Dr. Bedi offered the Family Counseling Centres being run by Navjyoti, her NGO, as training centres for IGNOU students. She also offered to provide internships to students enrolled in these two proposed IGNOU programmes.
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