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Policemen and customs officers
The policemen and customs officers head the corruption ranking, a survey launched by the independent company “IMAS Chsinau” on Monday reveals.
According to the survey, each eighth interviewed person said that most of the policemen and customs officers are involved in corruption acts. They are followed by the high ranking employees, justice and health workers. Local councilors, teaching staff, journalists and others are considered as the least corrupt.
Director of IMAS Chisinau, Doru Petrut, told a press conference on Monday that the largest part of respondents assert that t... Read more
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Times of India - India
12 October 2006
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Q&A: 'Sack police officers wit
Is a police force accountable only to the common man possible? Prakash Singh, a former DGP of Uttar Pradesh, thinks it can be realised. Now that the Supreme Court has issued directions to the Centre and the state governments on Singh's petition seeking police reforms, things could change in the coming days. Singh tells Manjari Mishra that entrenched interests within the force and the political class would resist the changes:
Out of the slew of reforms suggested by the Supreme Court recently, which one do you think will have a far-reaching impact in reforming the police force?
Setting up of State Security Commission, easily. The body could prove to be a cushion to men in khaki against aggression of the executive. Here I allude to unneces-sary interference by extraneous influences — political masters and influential bureaucrats.
Do you think the transformation in the police force can be that easy?
I don't expect an overnight miracle, I am not at all saying that come January 1 and the men in the force will become as polite and friendly as a London Bobby. There will certainly be problems to begin with within the department which has been steeped in corruption and been criminalised for a long 145 years.
Both insiders and outsiders whose interests are better served by a pliable force will resist change. Politicians and
bureaucrats will do their best to delay and dilute these recommendations. I am fully aware of that.
So what is the way out?
Special measures will be needed to neutralise and marginalise officers who are deeply politicised or have criminal links.
Article 311 of the Indian Constitution which provides for getting rid of personnel without conducting any inquiry could offer a feasible solution.
Just take away the jobs of 10 officers in UP and the message will be loud and clear. The number of such officers could range from two to 10 depending on the size of the state.
What do you feel about the intrinsic mistrust shown by lawmakers in India towards the force?
That legal provisions like confessions made to a police officer are not admissible in a court do little to boost their morale.
Certainly trust begets trust. But, then, Indian police basically started off as an instrument of oppression. Government minutes recorded in 1861 clearly say that "we need a politically useful police".
This has continued. Now another sore point is added to it by the exaggerated reaction of human rights activists who often seem to be more bothered about the rights of criminals and terrorists than victims.
Look at the hue and cry being made over Afzal's hanging. But with greater autonomy to the department and conditions leading up to men of integrity coming up, things may change for the better. It shall, hopefully, be easier.
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