A total of 16 young women are being trained in Karnataka. (Representational)
Bengaluru (Karnataka):
A total of 16 young women, mostly from villages across Karnataka, are learning to shoot, handle terror, and improve their weapon-handling skills as part of the training for the first batch of the all-woman Garuda commandos of the Karnataka Police.
The pre-induction training of the special operational team Garuda, Karnataka s own anti-terror force, is underway at Bengaluru s Centre for Counter-Terrorism for these 16 women, led by police official ML Madhura Veena.
Senior state police official Bhaskar Rao on 5 February met the first batch of all-women Garuda commandos of the police.