Neeraj Chauhan15-Jul-2013 NEW DELHI: Questioning a criminal might be easy for CBI officers but quizzing politicians, bureaucrats and top businessmen is hard for them. To remove this mental barrier, the CBI is set to join hands with National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) to train its officers in interrogating accused. CBI officials said questioning was often done by investigating officers in the rank of inspectors, ASPs and DSPs and they will be given training, apart from senior officers as well. A CBI officer said they were in process of signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with NIMHANS, Bangalore, a top institute having advanced programmes in biological, behavioral and basic sciences in relation to the brain-mind-behaviour-axis. NIMHANS experts, sources said, will train CBI officers mainly in interaction and understanding the behaviour of accused to be interrogated. CBI investigat es high profile and politically sensitive cases and has to call politicians, sometimes ministers and members of Parliament, bureaucrats and corporate bigwigs to its office. "It is possible that we (CBI and its officers) are not always able to extract everything from the accused because we do not understand the state of mind of the accused. Once trained psychologically, may be we will have better results," said an officer. CBI officials said the training would help officers handle the pressure while dealing with a particular accused. The agency has recently investigated cases like 2G scam, Commonwealth Games scam, NRHM scam and coal block allocations scam. "Dealing with complicated cases needs proper training, for which we are now taking help of NIMHANS," the officer said. NIMHANS is also known for providing psychiatric help and direct care to victims of calamities such as the Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984, the Odisha cyclone and the earthquak es in Gujarat and Maharashtra. http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-07-15/india/40590910_1_cbi-officers-commonwealth-games-scam-nimhans -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mental Health Advocacy (News 'N Views) India" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/MhaNewsViewsIndia?hl=en ------------- Affiliated Groups : MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY INDIA [email protected] Discussions on mental health law / policy / plan monitoring / human rights etc [email protected] India-specific news and views related to mental health [email protected] Information and support to carers of people with mental health issues [email protected] Mutual support and sharing of experiential knowledge, skills and social learning amongst peers --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mental Health Advocacy (News 'N Views) India" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
