AGARTALA/SHILLONG: Four police training academies in four northeastern states -- Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, and Tripura -- received the Home Minister's trophy for standing out as the best police training institutes', an official said on Thursday. According to the police, in the national level category, the North Eastern Police Academy (NEPA) in Meghalaya and the KTD Singh Police Training Academy in Tripura were awarded the Union Home Minister's Trophy for being the best police training institutes for the year 2021–22.
At the zonal level, the Police Training College in Assam's Dergaon and the Police Training Centre in Arunachal Pradesh's Banderdewa received the Union Home Minister's Trophy for emerging as the best police training institutes for the year 2021–22. The national-level winners would get Rs 20 lakh each, while the zonal-level winners would receive Rs 2 lakh each. The NEPA, the erstwhile Regional Police Training College, under the Union Home Ministry, was situated in the Ri-Bhoi district of Meghalaya and started functioning in July 1978. (IANS)