Sonepat-based O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) and UK’s Cambridge University signed a pact on Thursday to teach and train IPS officers in knowledge-based policing system.
Scholars from the JGU and Cambridge University have jointly designed a course that will seek to bring IPS officers up-to-date with the latest research-based knowledge of policing, fighting crime and their legal aspects.

The training contract was awarded to the two partners by the Union ministry of home affairs.
The course was public announced at a seminar on ‘knowledge-based policing: India and the global revolution in crime prevention’, held in the capital.
“We are ready for strengthening and adopting highest standards in Indian policing system with such pacts coming in place. Crime and criminal tracking network system, unique identification number and national grid are the steps forward by the government to inspire the world for a changing and efficient police structure in India,” said Ashwani Kumar, Director, CBI.

Professor Lawrence W. Sherman, Wolfson Professor of Criminology, University of Cambridge, said training police officers fed directly into the strength of the police system. 
“Such training will help us in imparting the knowledge based policing from top to lower level, resulting in preventing crime on a wide scale,” Sherman added.
The University Grants Commission has notified JGU as a private university established by the Haryana state legislature.