The Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh on July 21, 2018 launched the Student Police Cadet (SPC) programme for nationwide implementation at a ceremony in Gurugram, Haryana .
- During the launch the Home Minister expressed hope that the SPC would lead to a silent revolution over the years by focusing on character building by imparting moral values to budding minds.
- As per the Minister, the SPC programme would help in making students responsible citizens by inculcating values of respect to the elderly, discipline, social responsibility and through police-student interaction.
- The SPC programme will provide a healthy interface between schools and police peace and inculcate in the students aspects of public safety, discipline, patience, tolerance, empathy, respect of senior citizens, social harmony, traffic sense and a corruption-free environment.
- The youth of tomorrow who emerge out of such programme would bear ethical values of social commitment and be aware of social evils such as drugs, alcohol abuse, intolerance and vandalism.
- The Home Minister appealed to all stakeholders- teachers, parents, students, police and officials- to participate with enthusiasm and execute the SPC as a Mission Mode project.
- The SPC project will also help the police assess their image in the public eye and strive for improving confidence and winning trust of the people.
- SPC initially will be launched as pilot programme in all States and Union Territories.
- Earlier the Home Minister launched the theme song and training manual of SPC prepared by the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D).
About the SPC Programme
- The SPC programme focuses on students of Classes 8 & 9 and special care has been taken to ensure that it does not lead to increase in the workload of the students. The programme does not have any prescribed textbook nor is any exam envisaged. Only one class in a month is proposed. The programme seeks to cover broadly two kinds of topics, – crime prevention and control; and values and ethics.
- SPC will be launched initially in Government schools and later expanded to cover all schools. SPC will cover around 4 crore students.
- As per the Chief Minister of Haryana, Shri Manohar Lal, the students having undergone SPC training will be given advantage in police recruitment.
