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Advanced technical rescue course will be useful to save lives: Director General of Police
Director General of Police (DGP) N Sambasiva Rao has said that the advanced technical rescue course conducted for rescue teams would be useful to save the lives of people during disasters.
Vijayawada: Director General of Police (DGP) N Sambasiva Rao has said that the advanced technical rescue course conducted for rescue teams would be useful to save the lives of people during disasters. The DGP along with other higher officials of police department attended the concluding programme of Advanced Technical Rescue Course conducted in Tadepalli mandal of Guntur district on Wednesday.
Stating that the state prone to floods, cyclones and other calamities, the DGP stressed the need for specially trained teams to tackle disasters and rescue people and to save their valuable properties.
The training was conducted for teams under NDRF programme. The training consists of swift water rescue, boat operations course, technical rope rescue course, scuba diving. Scuba Diving is mostly useful for retrieval of bodies or rescue from a boat’s hull.
The other modules trained in the programme are extremely useful for rescuing people from floods and cyclones. Itus Sports and Safety Private Limited has been chosen by Andhra Pradesh government to undertake this task keeping in mind their experience and highly advanced knowledge and equipment base.
The company has been working in AP since 2013 and had already trained 600 members of AP Fire department in watermanship and open water rescue operations. R K Meena, K Satyanarayana, Jayaram Naik, P Venkata Ramana and Ankit Wagh attended the concluding ceremony of the training, which began on November 30.
