Few years ago, the Rifle Association
faced a major setback and since then City Armed Reserve Police was
providing rifle training for civilians. But now again plans have been
made to revive the Association.
Disclosing this to Express, Police
Commissioner KL Sudheer said that after holding a meeting with
concerned officials, the decision will be taken.
In 2011, eight batch of training
programmes were conducted and about 271 Civilians have obtained
training. This year from January to till date, about three batch of
training has been provided.
In a bid to imbibe self confidence,
courage, self protection and to promote good relations between Police
department and public, a training course in rifle shooting was
introduced. The Mysore city police together with the Rifle
Association started the Civilian Rifle Training Course (CRTC) and
started providing training since 1989. But since 2003-04, the
Association remained defunct.
Association Secretary Rameshchandra
said that 'there was a huge demand for Civilian Rifle training. We
used to held training in two batches some time and the strength would
exceed about 40 members.'
'We took active interest to enroll
members by distributing pamplets, give advertisements in newspapers
and provide wide publicity about the training, as a result there was
overwhelming response,' he added.
The Association which has a strength of
ten members is planning to bring back its glory in rifle training, if
revived. According to sources, it is learnt that there is a decline
in the number of candidates enrolling for the training from past
five-six years.
As per CAR DCP Prabha Shankar said that
'earlier there were not many localities and extensions, which
resulted in more number of admission to rifle training to protect
their property and selves. Whereas at present the situation is
different.'
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