Those youngsters looking to do something other than the hackneyed engineering and medicine courses now have another option open to them — detective sciences.
The maiden batch of a modest nine students graduated from the first academic programme of ‘security and detective sciences’ certified by Mangalore University on Tuesday. The graduates are all set to take up jobs as investigators and detectives. “This is indeed a breakthrough. These nine graduates of BA in Security and Detective Sciences have already been lapped up by private investigative agencies,” said course director MG Hegde. The students were sent to crime scenes and prepared their own case sheets. “A couple of them have even helped the police investigators in drawing up a investigation plan,” he added.
“It was an eight year odyssey that the course has taken to arrive at the fruition level. The curriculum has been drawn by the forensic experts, retired police officials, experts in private investigation agencies and peer reviewed by experts in criminology” said Chandralekha Gowda, principal of the institute.
One of the graduates, Devasweelan, who was was chalking out an investigation plan as a part of his course, told DNA: “I had surfed the net for such a course for hours after my Pre-University education but only Mangalore had it. After the three-year course, I am now confident that I can take up independent investigation on several crimes including murder, suicide, cases connected to narcotics.” The graduates were also given insights into tracking terror elements, corruption and infidelity between couples.
There are more than 300 top investigation and detective companies in India that are constantly on the lookout for academically trained investigators and detectives. “Right now, we have facility only to train small group of graduates, but in the coming days we will expand the facilities and also train more faculty members. We are looking at including more subjects like cyber crimes, financial frauds, various types of terror and anti social crimes,” Hegde said.
source: http://www.dnaindia.com / DNA / Home> Bangalore> Report / by M. Raghuram / Place:Mangalore, Agency:DNA / Thursday, April 04th, 2013