POLICE REFORMS We shall be observing September 22 as Police Reforms Day this year also. A detailed program has been worked out. Some of its salient features will be: i) A small public meeting in the Delhi University Campus ii) SMS campaign iii) Interactive Website, which is being designed iv) Distribution of Handbills/Posters/Stickers v) Special program on TV vi) Articles on Police Reforms in newspapers vii) Rallies in State capitals viii) Memoranda to State Chief Ministers ix) AVAAZ campaign The programme will be spread out from Sep 20 to 30. You may like to visit the website You may like to sign the AVAAZ petition at : avaaz.org/en/petition/Reforms_in_the_Indian_Police/ The following Ten Points would be the highlights of Police Reforms agenda: 1. What we have today is ‘Rulers Police’. It must metamorphose into ‘People’s Police’. 2. The executive stranglehold over the police must go. The police should have freedom to act as per the law of the land. 3. Upholding the Rule of Law should be the supreme objective of the police. 4. Registration of cases must improve. Assessment of crime situation should not be based on statistical figures. 5. Police behaviour towards the common man should be marked by empathy and respect for human rights. 6. Police must extend appropriate legal protection to the weaker sections of society, especially the scheduled castes/tribes, women and the minorities. 7. Police infrastructure – manpower, transport, communications, and forensic support – must improve very substantially. Housing of the subordinate ranks must receive special attention. 8. Any police officer, whether starting as a Constable, Sub-Inspector or DySP should be able to earn at least three promotions in his service career. 9. A policeman should not be on duty for more than twelve hours, which may in due course be brought down to eight hours. 10. Supreme Court’s orders on police reforms must be implemented. Acts legislated by state governments should conform to Court’s directions in letter and spirit. Please extend your support to the movement as best as you can. India must have a better police, a police sensitive to the problems and aspirations of the people and capable of dealing with the formidable emerging challenges of law enforcement. Prakash Singh
Posted on: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 07:36:18 +0000
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