IPS officers: House panel for separate exams

The standing committee on Home Affairs has recommended a separate examination for recruitment of IPS officers where their mental makeup and inclination for policing can be checked. In its report tabled in Parliament on Thursday,the panel also made suggestion on the training modules adopted at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy,Hyderabad.

The panel headed by BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu recommended lessons on ethical traits and moral behaviour for probationers and serving officers. The committee is of the view that since policing does have a bearing on the lives of individuals,police personnel should possess high moral and ethical values so as to arrest the declining trend in quality and standard of public life.