Less than one per cent Police Personnel in Gujarat have received in-service training, reports The Times of India on September 4, quoting from The Status of Policing in India Report 2019. The report also says Gujarat Police department spent 1.24 per cent of its total Police expenditure on training and only 0.9 per cent of Police in the state have been able to get in-service training. Similar condition prevails in Maharashtra. Police officials at the level of Deputy Superintendents and Indian Police Service (IPS) ranks are trained more at 43.2 per cent and 32.5 per cent, respectively.
Gujarat also lags behind in training Police in new technology, cybercrime and forensic. States like Andhra Pradesh, Assam and Bihar among others have better training record of their Police force in evolving technologies.