Indian Express, December 2024
Sessions in which police personnel play themselves as well as victims of crimes against women, and subsequent discussions on where the blame lies were part of a new training programme to sensitise Bihar police on interacting with victims of gender-based violence. It started with the government bringing in public policy experts, who, over the last few months, helped create an innovative curriculum to “change the mindset” of police towards women.
One of these experts, Nishith Prakash, a professor of Public Policy and Economics at Northeastern University in Boston, told The Indian Express that their first task was to understand the police personnel, “from health status of police officers to infrastructure at police stations”, before providing them gender-based training with the help of art and theatre.
