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Need for Police Reforms in India - Coggle Diagram
Need for Police Reforms in India
What is it?
Use of undue or excessive or extra-legal force
Indian case: “Third degree”, custodial deaths, political subordination
Beatings, racial abuse, unlawful killings, torture
Ex. Racial abuse in USA, Britain
Human rights violations by police
Causes of such brutality
Unscientific criminal investigation techniques
Lack of training in Human rights
Archaic laws meant to suppress
Excessive political control
Colonial legacy
Frustration out of huge workload
Social structure of India
History of Police reforms
National Police Commission (1977)
Recommended a judicial inquiry for deaths caused by Police
Gore Committee on Police Training in 1971
Padmanabhaiah Committee (2000)
First Police Reforms Committee was set up by Kerala in 1959
Prakash Singh Vs. Union of India Case (2006)
ARC II: Political abuse of Policemen
Directives of the Prakash Singh Case
Police Complaints Authority (PCA) for public complaints against police
National Security Commission (NSC)
Police Establishment Board (PEB) for transfers and promotions
Constitution of State Security Commission (SSC)
Independence of Director General of Police (DGP)
Status of compliance
States have devised their own means to dilute
DGPs are still transferred, removed from the post prematurely
Justice Thomas Committee on state compliance, 2010
Justice JS Verma Committee urged all states to comply
Not a single state has fully complied
Recent actions
Provisions for women’s security
Concept of SMART Police by PM
Implemented till 2020
Model Police Act of 2015
2017: Rs 25,000-crore for state police forces modernization
Way forward
Transforming Ruler’s Police to People’s Police
Sensitivity training to the police forces
Central sector schemes can include Police reforms
Technology up-gradation and cyber strength
States should be encouraged and incentivized
Bring police and public order in the Concurrent List of Schedule VII