Show empathy while solving people’s problems: Rajnath to IPS officers

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Home Minister Rajnath Singh Thursday asked police officers to show empathy for people while solving their problems. He urged a group of Indian Police Service (IPS) officers to orient themselves to a multi-dimensional role in the era of technological growth. Singh said that behavioural and attitudinal orientation is equally important as intellectual excellence.

“He urged the officers to solve people’s problems with sympathetic and empathetic behaviour towards them,” according to a press release issued by the home ministry. Singh stressed that qualities of police officers in their career should invariably include honesty, integrity, hard work and constant striving for excellence in their day-to-day functioning.

He said assuming responsibility with a sense of purpose to help public is quintessential to the job of an IPS officer. Addressing the 69th batch of IPS officers here, the home minister said that technology should be utilised in an optimal manner for the development of police functioning and to address people’s problem quickly and efficiently.