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Rise in criminal cases against
Some 84 criminal cases were registered against the Delhi Police in 2006, up from 59 last year.
The number of corruption cases against its policemen remained the same, at 27, S. Regupathy, minister of state for home affairs, told the Lok Sabha Friday.
"The policemen were booked under rape, fraud, murder, kidnapping, theft and corruption charges," Regupathy added.
The minister said strict action had been taken against the offenders including removal, dismissal, arrest and prosecution as per the law.
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Watchdog member criticizes fai
A member of the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) said Thursday it was "repugnant and an affront to common decency" that no officer had accepted responsibility for last year's mistaken killing of Jean Charles de Menezes.
Richard Barnes, who is also a Conservative member of the London Assembly, suggested that the "establishment" closed ranks to avoid holding anyone to account for the shooting of the 27-year-old Brazilian electrician at a south London tube station last July.
In a statement, Barnes added that the position of silence taken by other members of the police watchdog over the recent verdict not to prosecute any officers was "no longer sustainable."
"Is there no one within the MPS (Metropolitan Police Service) with the moral fiber and sense of personal obligation to recognize that Jean Charles' fate was sealed by systemic failure?" he asked.
Barnes said that MPS officers should be prepared to take the blame and suggested that ultimate responsibility should rest with police chief Sir Ian Blair.
Menezes was shot in the head seven times after he was apprehended by anti-terrorist police at Stockwell tube station, but last week the Crown Prosecution Service concluded that no individual should be charged over mistaken killing.
His family described the decision as "unbelievable" and said that relatives had waited a year "to end up with something that does not make sense."
Barnes said that the power to exercise ultimate force "carries with it the responsibility to ensure all other possible alternatives are exhausted, even in such a fast moving, fluid situation."
"Those obligations were not fulfilled at Stockwell, and Jean Charles paid the ultimate price for that failure - with his life," he said.
"I find it repugnant and an affront to common decency that the establishment can get it so wrong and then close ranks to protect its members from accepting and exercising the obligations of office," his statement said.
The MPA member also criticized attempts to denigrate de Menezes, saying there had been "leaks that intended to besmirch his character." It is "simply not enough to accept the glittering prizes whilst ignoring the failures". "Where is the man of personal stature and integrity amongst them?"
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