it is for the first time that a workshop on humananimal conflicts was organized for the police officials by any forest related institution in the state the central academy for state forest service casfs dehradun organized three days training workshop for police personnel on the topic man animal conflict an emerging law order situation which concluded on wednesday police officials from across various states such as mp rajasthan punjab uttarakhand which has been witnessing humananimal conflicts participated in the workshop rakesh chander participant police official at naintal said it is police which reaches a spot of humananimal conflict before the team of forest department arrives so they must know how to control mob in such a situation it is through workshop we also learnt as to how to save the evidence such as pug marks of the leopard which killed human so that it does not get destroyed by the crowd he said the participant also learnt the root cause of the conflicts which includes people building their houses close to the fringes of the forest and going to relieve themselves in the forest for not having toilets at home and scarcity of food for the animals in the forests this would help the police officials not only to understand the issue but also to spread awareness among people so that such incidents do not rise further another participant manoj kumar rai superintendent of police at police training school panchmadi madhya pardesh said it was through a field visit to wildlife institute of india we learnt about how to recognize the forensic evidence as the canine nails etc lying on the spot of the crime as to which wild animals they belong to which also determines the gravity of the situation and also whom to send the evidence for investigation the information also help in intradepartmental coordination between forest and police department it is when animal leaves forest and comes into villages on the fringes and urban settlement then the issue of law and order or of public safety becomes the concern of the police meera iyer head of casfs thinks that it is here the police officials need to understand the behavior of specific animals to handle the situation a leopard can attack and kill crowd gathered around it out of fear while an elephant can run amok and trample down people or also how to control the angry mob which is hell bent upon harming the trapped animal as the poachers commit the crime in the forest land and move out of it to the revenue area to supply and smuggle the animal body parts so the police has to get involved it is here the sensitization of the police toward wildlife crime becomes quite important which our workshop aimed at she said