THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: ‘‘Joining Student Police Cadets (SPC) scheme was the greatest thing to have happened in my life. It has given me aim, motivation and above all a sense of responsibility,’’ says Nandita AS, a class IX student of Pattom St Mary’s Higher Secondary School.Clad in a khaki uniform and a navy blue cap, she looked like a scaled down prototype of an efficient police officer. But the spirit she exuded was not a bit scaled down.City Express met her at an exhibition of innovations by student police cadets organised in connection with the first anniversary of the SPC scheme. Matching her spirit were her schoolmates, Athira Prakash and Adhithi S Kumar.According to Adhithi, the most attractive feature of the scheme was that the cadets could play a key role along with their teachers in guiding their fellow schoolmates to the right path."SPC have several objectives and we are already halfway through in achieving them within an year,’’ said Adhithi, confidently pointing at a chart on the wall in which the objectives of SPC were listed.The confidence and zest displayed by these girls were exactly what the think-tank of the state police had envisaged when they devised the scheme. They wanted to groom a morally and socially responsible generation through providing police training to the students.And, the different stalls at the exhibition were a testimony that the department had succeeded in inculcating the above qualities among the cadets. Most of the exhibits displayed by the students had born out of their social commitment. For example, Vishnu V S of Government High School, Kadakkal, who dismantled his desktop computer to build a model of shake sensors to protect houses from burglars and the boys of Chavara Government Higher Secondary School who actually came up with a revised model of the National Highway near Cantonment area to reduce the traffic congestion that may occur once an Infopark, which is in the pipeline, is realised.The police department had also organised another exhibition in which all the wings of the state police showcased their armoury, including arms and ammunitions and telecommunication equipment.Director General of Police Jacob Punnoose told City Express that the response of the students had dismissed all doubts remained over the success of the scheme, since no benefits were given to the cadets under the scheme."The police are getting more and more applications from schools expressing willingness to be a part of the scheme,’’ the DGP said. The anniversary celebrations were inaugurated by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Tuesday.
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