What did the 80 DIGs and IGs learn in England?

Here is a link, to a news item in the Hindu dated Oct. 30, 2011: IPS Officers undergo strategic training at Cambridge.

GIST
80 Senior Police Officers from India have undergone their mid-career training at Cambridge University, England.
Sponsor: Ministry of Home, Govt. of India.
Indian Collaborator (Contractor?):O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), Sonepat.

What I think
The whole thing seems to stink.
Is the Ministry of Home, such an impotent resource-less Organisation that it cannot impart a mid-career training to its own officials, even after 60 years of independence? Sardar Patel the first Dy. P.M. of India will be turning in his grave for this shameful spectacle.

Another silly thing is: Why did the Ministry of Home, New Delhi need the intermediation of the so called Jindal Global University and the Cambridge University for arranging this training? Home Ministry could have directly arranged the training at Scotland Yard or Interpol, London, in consultation with the Government of UK.

What the Indian Police Officials need is not University Class Room lectures. They had them already in their College days. What they badly needed, need and will need for a long time to come is 'a orientation towards poor'. This they cannot get in UK or in Jindal-Sonepat.

What they need more is not 'evidence based policing', but 'preventive policing'. Evidence-based policing concentrates more on autopsy and post-mortem, after a crime takes place. The maxim 'prevention is better than cure' works with equal vigor as it applies in health-arena. Prevention of Offences, minimises losses to life, property, peace and progress. The London Police or the Cambridge University cannot be said to be adept in prevention, as the recent riots in London where wanton crowds looted properties.

The reporting of the news by the Hindu also leaves much to improve. They seem to have reproduced whatever the Jindal University representatives and Professors had given. This will naturally be in marketing tone for the University which worked as a middleman.

The Hindu, would have done a finer job, had it tried to obtain the feed-back of the trainees, at least their off-the-record views. I get an impression that the news item itself may fall under the category of PAID NEWS, without mentioning the word 'advt.'.

I must welcome comments from the Hindu.