India to build $US25 million police academy

Indian Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shindey and Maldivian Home Minister Mohamed Jameel Ahmed have announced an agreement for the building of a new $US25 million police academy in Lhaviyani Atoll Dhihfushimaadhoo.

Local media reported Jameel as having said said the academy would be supplied by the Indian government.

During Jameel’s meeting with his Indian counterpart – who is in town for the SAARC ministers’ meeting tomorrow – is also said to have included talk of tstrengthening the police and the prisons, as well as discussion of terrorism and religious extremism.

The ‘SenaHiya’ Military Hospital in Male’ was officially opened earlier this month at a ceremony inaugurated by Indian Defence Minister Shri A.K. Anthony.

Jameel also said that the Indian home minister pledged to replace all police vehicles destroyed during the unrest that flared across the country following February’s transition of Presidential power.

India has also releases a further US$25million credit facility to the Maldives – part of a US$100million dollar package agreed upon with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last November