NATIONAL POLICE ACADEMY

AIM
To design a premier Indian Police Service officers training academy to provide
world-class police training, committed to significant enhancement of its
facilities and buildings, essential for world-class Police Training.

OBJECTIVES
 To create a new and suitable environment to accommodate the increasing
number of volunteering individuals and train the preliminary, refresher and
advanced police courses.
 To provide for an important centre where new ideas and modern techniques
are tried out, tested and put into effect while ensuring systematic and
progressive training both physically and mentally.
 To effect an awareness about the glorious past of the academy, the services
rendered by this institution to the police department and subsequently to
the nation as a whole.
 To arrive at effective solutions to the problems presently faced by the
existing academy and incorporate them in proposed design along with
inference from the studies.

JUSTIFICATION
‘A Million Mutinies Now’ - that’s how V.S Naipaul, the Nobel Laureate
described India. Indian society is a behemoth, bursting at seams due to rising
aspirations beset with multifarious internal contradictions. Kudos to the Indian
Police that it smoothens the ruffled surfaces and provides a seamless level
playing field to the common poor.
The needs and demands of modern-day societies have evolved, and it is very
important for police training academies to keep up with the practice of the
police profession.
Police academy training and education develops the minds, career goals, and
attitudes of future law enforcement officers who will be in charge of social
order.
Higher education adds value to police training as it reinforces the development
of critical thinking skills and the necessary values needed to face the needs and
demands of society, particularly in terms of accountability, professionalism,
and legitimacy.
Any social edifice is built on the backbone of a non-partisan, efficient and
effective police and policing practices and here comes the role of Police
Academy.

SCOPE OF THE PROJECT

Classifying all major activity spaces of the academy, the scope is as follows
An administrative block which would house the commandant’s office, cabins
for the office bearers in charge of administration, training and education, and a
number of clerical office spaces and other ancillary spaces.
EDUCATION
Basic course training block, central library, a museum, an auditorium to
accommodate 2000-2500 capacity.
TRAINING
Training centre, special tactics wing, forensic science wing, cyber wing,
conference hall.
OTHER FACILITIES
Officer’s mess and club, photo gallery, indoor and outdoor sports complex,
model police station, urban shooting range, meditation centre, store and
hospital. There may be accommodation facilities for staff and trainees.

SITE
1. PERIYAKULAM, THENI
Located in TN State amidst high ranges, the site is eventually contoured.
Situated in the agricultural area and easy to access. Periyakulam lake
nearby and mountain ranges. Fertile soil and moderate temperature.
Pleasant environment for campus establishment and training.
2. NANMANGALAM, CHENNAI
Nanmangalam is surrounded by main roads and easy to access the site.
Reserved forest and bird sanctuary for some part of it, residential zone and
commercial zone on main road by the site.
POTENTIAL CASE STUDIES
1. Sardar Valabhai Patel national police academy, Hyderabad, Telangana.
2. Tamil Nadu police academy, Onamancherry, Vandalur.
3. Kerala police academy, Thrissur.
4. Rajasthan police academy, Jaipur.

SPATIAL REQUIREMENTS
1. ADMINISTRATION BLOCK
2. TRAINING CENTRE
 Classrooms
 Syndicate rooms
 Labs
 Staff room
 Cafeteria
 Police control room
 Conference room
 Lounges
 Lecture halls
 Library
3. SPECIAL TRAINING PROGRAM
 Mid-career training program
 Special tactics wing
 Forensic science building
 Crime scene hall
 IED model room
 Cyber cell wing
4. OTHER FACILITIES
 Auditorium
 Officer’s mess
 Photo gallery
 Indoor and outdoor sports complex
 PT ground
 Model police station
 Urban shooting range
 Meditation and yoga centre
 Hospital
 Store
 Armoury building
 Academy monuments
 Police quarters

THESIS SYNOPSIS
APARNA.R
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2014-2019

NATIONAL POLICE ACADEMY