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San Francisco's civilian police watchdog agency is mismanaged and suffers from understaffing and poor morale, auditors from the city controller's office have found.
"OCC management does not meet standard expectations for performance and management accountability,'' according to a draft of the audit obtained by The Chronicle.
Agency director Kevin Allen, who recently resigned citing health reasons and is leaving next month, declined to comment on the document, saying it is not in its final form.
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Indian Kashmir police arrested
TWO senior security officials in Indian Kashmir have been arrested for staging fake gunfights with Islamic insurgents in which they killed three people, police said yesterday.
The arrest of the two officers came after police exhumed three bodies last week as part of an investigation into the deaths.
The dead were a carpenter, a Muslim priest and a street vendor who went missing last year and, according to police, were killed in the Ganderbal area on the outskirts of Srinagar, summer capital of Indian Kashmir.
"Based on evidence, we were able to arrest the former senior superintendent and deputy superintendent of Ganderbal," said Deputy Inspector-General Farooq Ahmad.
Two policemen were arrested last week for killing the carpenter, a father of five, after they staged a fake gun battle claiming he was a militant.
Public outrage over the death of carpenter Abdul Rehman Padder, which erupted in violent protests, has forced police to investigate similar killings.
The Hindu newspaper has claimed to have official documents showing that "at least three separate Indian army units in Jammu and Kashmir participated in a series of cold-blooded murders of innocent civilians organised by a group of rogue officers in Ganderbal".
Writing in The Hindustan Times yesterday, leading columnist Barha Dutt said that by the most conservative official estimates more than 1000 men had "disappeared" in Kashmir in the past decade.
"It is no longer wise or fair to treat Kashmir's fake encounters as isolated instances of injustice," she wrote.
The arrested officers were accused by The Hindu of being "at the heart" of a police and army ring.
The revelations that followed the exhumation of the alleged victims in Kashmir and the angry protests have embarrassed the Indian Government.
Defence Minister AK Antony yesterday denied any knowledge of involvement by officers in fake killings, but said the army was investigating the reports.
The Hindu named officers of the Rashtriya Rifles based in Kashmir as having been involved in fake "encounters" with alleged terrorists infiltrating from neighbouring Pakistan-occupied Azad (Free) Kashmir.
The motivation for the killings, according to The Hindu and Dutt, stems from the officers' desire to gain rewards, awards and promotion.
Dutt wrote: "What drives some of these men to murder? Is it because for too long there has been an unofficial, unspoken acceptance of 'encounters' as a way of tackling terrorism? Or is it because promotions and gallantry awards are within tantalising reach if a soldier stacks up the 'kills'?"
She says Indian Kashmir's Special Operations Group "is flooded with former militants -- men who were once invaluable as informants, but who over the years have become more like armed bandits ruling over private fiefdoms of terror".
The fallout from the scandal threatens the progress India and Pakistan have made towards settling their dispute over the strife-torn territory, dubbed the world's most dangerous nuclear flashpoint.
A senior separatist leader, Mohammad Yasin Malik, said he planned to begin a three-day hunger strike and called for a general strike tomorrow against the "fake gun battles".
"If India fails to stop the human rights violations in the next 2 1/2 months, I will launch the fast unto death," said Malik, head of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front.
India accuses Pakistan of arming and training militants in its part of the disputed territory and later pushing the combatants into Indian Kashmir to fight the security forces.
A separatist revolt in the scenic region has killed more than 40,000 people since it began in 1989, officials say. Human rights groups put the toll at about 60,000 dead or missing.
Indian human rights groups say at least 8000 Kashmiri Muslims have disappeared since the fighting began, most after being detained by security forces, which have broad powers of arrest. Government figures say the number missing is no more than 3900.
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