WEST Yorkshire Police is strengthening links with the Indian Police Force by giving two senior officers a tour of the county.
Inspector General Abhayanand and Inspector General Neelmani, both from Patna in the state of Bihar, will be spending three days in West Yorkshire before heading off to a conference in Liverpool.
It is not the first time officers from the Indian Force have had a taste of what policing is like in West Yorkshire - three years ago six officers visited Bradford to see community policing in action.
In 2001 a delegation of three Bradford officers were joined by officers from South Yorkshire, the Metropolitan and Leicestershire Police Forces to attend a conference in the Punjab to look at a variety of policing issues.
And last year officers from West Yorkshire were among a delegation of UK Forces who attended a two-day conference in New Delhi, which covered a number of themes including international co-operation between Indian and UK Police Forces, how murder investigations are carried out in India and the UK as well as forced marriages from the two perspectives.
During their visit to the county the officers will visit Bradford, where they will go on patrol with officers and meet members of the Bradford Hate Crime Alliance and also the Minorities Liaison Committee.
Next stop will be Huddersfield where they will meet local residents and see how community policing in action works.
The two officers will head off to Liverpool for the Anglo-Indian Police Conference 2003.
