The Indian Ambassador to Maldives Sunjay Sudhir said that the Police Academy being developed in Addu with grant aid from India is not an Indian asset but rather belongs to the Maldivian police. He said it will be the Maldivian Police that determines how to use it as well.
In an exclusive interview given to Mihaaru news on Sunday, the ambassador said that while people used to say the academy was being built for the Indian army to stay in Maldives, and such talk have now stopped. When the public witnessed Police Commissioner Mohamed Hameed and other police teams visiting the academy to see it's progress, the public stopped talking about it, he said.
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