- Assam receives the President’s Colour Award for exemplary service
- The President’s Colours reflect not just the Assam Police’s courage, grit and competence, but also its sensitive handling of people
- Hero Mindmine, part of Hero Enterprise partnered with the Assam Police to impart soft skills training to their personnel
Assam Police received the prestigious President’s Colours award
for its exemplary service. The President’s Colours, a special flag, also known as ‘Nishaan’ is the highest honour to be given to any military or police unit in recognition of exceptional service rendered to the nation, both in peace and war. Union Home Minister, Amit Shah ceremonially bestowed the President’s Colour Award to Assam Police on behalf of the President.
Director General of Assam Police, Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta, IPS said “This is true testament to Assam police’s commitment towards performance, professionalism, integrity and above all service to humanity.”
Hero Mindmine, part of Hero Enterprise, had partnered with the Assam Police to impart soft skills training to their personnel. Sunil Kant Munjal, Chairman, Hero Enterprise congratulated the Assam Police and said “Citizen interface lies at the very heart of good governance by the Police. Members of a good police force must not just be efficient in their
role as law keepers, they must also be sensitive in their handling of people. Hero Mindmine takes great pride in imparting soft skills training to police personnel posted across the state’s police stations and traffic branches, and is delighted that the President’s Colour has been conferred on Assam Police”.
DGP Mahanta also said that “I feel my officers benefited a lot with Hero Mindmine’s soft skills training. This not only helped them deal with stress, but also improved their attitudes and increased their work output and competencies, which is helping them garner trust amongst the citizens”.
The President’s Colours reflect not just the Assam Police’s courage, grit and competence, but also its sensitive handling of people. Assam received this Award as a recognition of exceptional performance in controlling crime, tackling insurgency, ensuring security of lives and property, and maintaining law and order in the state. In the past decades, the force has done exemplary work in fighting terror outfits like ULFA, NSCN and NDFB. It has
brought down illegal infiltration and cow smuggling across the international border. It has also done well to tackle the menace of drugs and illegal smuggling of coal, betel nuts and wood.
The flag presented to Assam Police has a map of the state with its 36 districts, the Assam Police insignia and also the one-horned rhino – the state animal. It is an emblem worn by all the officers in the unit on the left-hand sleeve of their uniform. A replica of the flag presented to the unit can be worn as an insignia by all officers and ranks of the force on their uniform.
Hero Mindmine, through an open tender process under the MOITRI scheme, was chosen to impart soft skills training to the Assam Police personnel. A need was long been felt by the Assam Police Department for improving attitude and behavioural patterns of their Police personnel, to make them citizen friendly, service oriented and develop a positive and
helpful attitude. The objective of the training programme was to offer soft skills training to police personnel posted at various police stations, and traffic branches in Assam which will help them acquire skills and etiquettes to communicate politely and gently with the citizens and change the public perception about the police force. Over 10,000 officials comprising of
various ranks of Assam Police- Inspectors, Sub-Inspectors, ASI, Havildar, Constables (both male and female) from District HQ, Subdivision and Police Stations in the state underwent twenty-four hours of training in batches in 8 districts of Assam.
