BUREAU OF POLICE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

BUREAU OF
POLICE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

The Government of India vide Resolution No.8/136/68-P.I (Pers.I) dated 28.08.1970 formally established the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D), under the Ministry of Home Affairs giving a new orientation to then existing Police Research and Advisory Council in 1966 with the primary objective of modernization of police force: 1. to take direct and active interest in the issues, 2. to promote a speedy and systematic study of the police problems and 3. to apply science and technology in the methods and techniques used by police. The Bureau was established with the Research, Statistics and Publication division and Development division initially with a well laid out charter of duties. It also handles Correctional Administration, National Police Missions, Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Science, National Crime Records Bureau and Directorate of Forensic Science. Its emblem is crested with Ashoka Lion Capital in gold supported by two semicircular wreaths of gold encompassing the organisation’s acronym ‘BPRD’ in a circle in dark blue colour. The words ‘आ नो भद्राः क्रतवो यन्तु विश्वतः:’ (1.89.1, Rig Veda) meaning 'Let Noble Thoughts Come to Me from All Directions' in black is encrypted in white banner with red border in Devanagari below the crest.