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Corruption in any set-up renders it incapable of functioning in an efficient manner. The Delhi traffic police, like most other public dealing offices in this country, are not exactly a brotherhood of saints. Given this, the establishment of a Special Checking Unit under the Vigilance Branch now to address complaints of corruption among traffic police men is indeed a welcome step.
The extent to which corruption is prevalent in the traffic police can be gauged from the fact that many in the Delhi police force vie for a posting there. Although with a transfer and posting committee in p... Read more
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01 June 2007
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Police may get more powers to
Police may be given a new legal power allowing them to require people to "move on" from danger and crime scenes or to disperse crowds.
The Government has not yet reached a view on whether such a "move on" law should be introduced, but the extra police power is contained in a range of suggestions in a discussion paper issued by Police Commissioner Howard Broad yesterday.
The paper is the first step toward a rewrite of the almost 50-year-old Police Act.
It calls for consideration of the "move on" power, which would allow police to exclude someone from a designated area for up to four hours.
That power would allow police to deal with loitering that could affect public safety and order, including at crashes, brawls or crime scenes, the paper says.
"Such a new power could also enable police to disperse individuals or groups who are behaving in a threatening manner; behaviour which can escalate to intimidation or violence, requiring stronger police intervention."
Other suggestions for greater police powers, with safeguards, include the right to require proof of identity before a charge is laid and without a blanket requirement to be taken to a police station and a statutory presumption that using handcuffs is "reasonable force".
It also suggests extending the powers of some staff with specialist skills, such as dealing with white-collar crime.
That could include extending the right to conduct personal searches to jailers and prisoner escorts.
"Similarly, police staff working in protective roles (such as those guarding government buildings and official residences) would seem to need powers to stop, detain and search people who might feasibly pose a threat to the places under guard or people in them."
The report identifies the need for clear statutory principles to guide policing and clearer lines of accountability.
It outlines basic principles, currently absent from the statute books, to underpin policing.
They include impartiality and freedom from improper control, upholding appropriate standards of conduct, personal integrity and professionalism and providing a national service.
It also lays the groundwork for an "integrity test" for officers.
A code of conduct , to meet an urgent recommendation by the Bazley report into police conduct, is being prepared.
The discussion paper restates the ideal that police will not be routinely armed, and suggests a preference for "reasonable force" could be enshrined in law as a distinct principle of policing.
Police Minister Annette King said a Policing Bill would be introduced at the end of this year.
Submissions on the discussion document would be accepted till the end of July.
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