Showing posts with label Police in Social Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Police in Social Life. Show all posts

Monday, December 8, 2008

After 1947

Two point agenda of Ajay Shah 

It may be true to argue “The police are often more dangerous than the criminals, so many crimes go unreported”. But it is utterly debatable issue that “the brute fact is that in most parts of India, women were safer going out after dark under British rule than they are today”.

However, it is the need of the hour that “For India's development to proceed, we need to greatly shift the focus of the State away from welfare programs to law and order”.  

Friday, December 5, 2008

Vote bank means middle class but all politicians are top class not by virtue

Abhinav Kumar is a police officer and writes the length and breath of the Indian police system. Especially after every incident that happened the present one focuses on law makers and their expertise, resources allocation, etc. the below are notable. 

  • …..out of the 25 odd officers of joint secretary rank and above in the ministry of home affairs (MHA), only two of them are professional police officers with any field experience, and their real influence on policy making is debatable. Other nerve centres of the decision making structure, namely the PMO and the cabinet secretariat are equally bereft of professional internal security expertise. 
  • As a policeman, I cannot help but feel growing rage and anger at the repeated assaults on the idea of India. If Mumbai 26/11 is able to create a national mood for effecting the changes outlined above in a time bound manner, it would be the most apt tribute to all the innocents who lost their lives. Otherwise it would be business as usual.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Where is Police in Social life?

The one who is brave in expression is the Mr Abhinav Kumar. In his quite interesting article in the Indian Express says that the “Delhi Police was under pressure from the media and the Government to do something. So they made elaborate plans. A house was rented in a Muslim locality close to a mosque. Three innocent youths were picked up from different places and brought there at some unspecified time which would be corroborated by a 'local eye witness'. Then two of them were shot dead and the third was arrested so he could testify as an eyewitness against the cops in the murder case that ought to be registered against Sharma and his team. To make the story more believable Sharma was shot dead by his own colleagues. How paranoid does one have to be to believe this theory?We will believe the worst about our men in khaki based on conjecture and propaganda because it is our democratic right and duty not to trust them. And the terrorists whose murderous deeds have been splattered across our TV screens deserve all the benefit of the doubt”.

But the question is that we need to “Listen to the questions being raised one despairs for the fate of a civil society that is unable to distinguish between its violators and defenders. Why were two terrorists killed? Why was one arrested? Why and how did two of them escape? Why did Inspector Sharma die? Why wasn't he wearing a bulletproof jacket? Let us add up the worst of the conspiracy theories and we get the following scenario”.