Security Forces Receive Disaster Response Training in Collaboration with Local Communities

The Nepal Army, Armed Police Force, Nepal Police, and Metropolitan Police personnel have received training to make disaster management and response more effective through collaboration with the community.

The four-day training was organized under the technical management of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority and the Disaster Response and Training Center of the Nepal Police. The Authority stated that the training was organized with the objective that integrated initiatives by security agencies, in collaboration with the community, will make disaster management effective.

Roshanikumari Shrestha, Joint Secretary of the Authority, informed that 26 individuals, including eight each from the Nepal Army, Nepal Police, and Armed Police Force, Nepal, and two Metropolitan Police personnel from Lalitpur Metropolitan City, received training which began on Chaitra 6 and concluded today.

Senior Superintendent of Police Santosh Kumar Bhattarai, Chief of the Nepal Police Disaster Response and Training Center, expressed the view that this type of training will enhance search and rescue capabilities and also help increase uniformity among security agencies during response operations.