The Uttar Pradesh police are gearing up to establish a State Bureau of Police Research and Development on the lines of Central Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D). State DGP O P Singh held a meeting with the director general of BPR&D AP Maheshwari and other senior officers of the state last week to chalk out a plan for setting up the state police research and development wing. Like its central counterpart, the state bureau will do state-oriented research and analyze different crime patterns, frequency, target groups and vulnerable areas of different type of crimes, according to OP Singh, UP's director general of police (DGP). He said the research will help the state police personnel take preventive measures and thus reduce crime frequency. Further, the state plans to also set up a regional training center of data analytics for BPR&D, he added. He said a proposal in this regard will be soon sent to the state government. He added additional director general (ADG), rules and manuals, Jasveer Singh has been asked to chalk out the details of the proposal as soon as possible. Senior officials of other police units like technical services, UP 100, Anti-Terror Squad and Special Task Force will also be roped in to develop an effective plan. The DGP said the state police have several wings, like UP 100 (police emergency response center) where different types of complaints are received 24X7. Similarly, hundreds of complaints pour in at 1090 (Women Power Line), a helpline for women in distress and UP police twitter services daily. The UP DGP said the discussion to set up a state police university on the lines of Raksha Shakti University in Ahmedabad (Gujarat) is also underway. The university will offer courses in policing, crime and criminal psychology. The police university will not only cater to those who don the khaki but anyone willing to gain knowledge or build a career in related fields. The plan to set up the university was floated by the previous DGP Sulkhan Singh in November 2017. The Director of Raksha Shakti University had also visited Lucknow to give a presentation on the issue. He said that UP police will soon launch separate Twitter handles under the title of digital friends of UP police to reach out to UP residents living in different countries. The social media account will make NRIs aware of services rendered by UP police. The DGP said he got this idea after meeting an NRI Supriya Broadbent living in London and her husband Mark Broadbent recently. He said Supriya, who is tax consultant in London, appreciated the state police twitter service through which problems of several NRIs were solved.