Came across a report in the paper today about a chargesheet being filed for a case which happenned in July. It takes the staff of a particular police station (most probably sector 36 Police station) 3 months to file a chargesheet for a murder case in which the husband Varjinder killed his wife Pooja with the help of his girlfriend Renu. Don't know whether police procedures are bad/cumbersome
or
detective training is bad
or the staff is least concerned about producing any output and getting rapped by their seniors for shoddy and slow work
or they are plain overburdened
or they need better tools to do their work in terms of infrastructure, software, manpower etc
or their working conditions are bad
or there are no incentives/disincentives for good/bad work
or nobody among the public or civil society ngos related to governance care about the state of affairs.
After the chargesheet is filed, lets see what happens next and how fast the lower judiciary and the public prosecutors' office acts on the case after it reaches the court stage.
Chandigarh has a central detective school at sector 36 which technically comes under the BPRD. A careful look at the BPRD website seems to indicate that the BPRD itself has become non functional after Kiran Bedi left it. The other body under the MHA (union ministry of home affairs) which looks and improves/trains people about police systems and processes is the NCRB or national crime records bureau. Besides ofcourse the police training schools at the state level and the central level. I wonder if there is any police efficiency monitoring body (other than the NCRB or the generalised CAG --comptroller and auditor general) similar to the NACB -national accreditation board which is for rating diagnostic labs, hospitals, clinics, education institutes etc etc.
People who can share more on these points are
0 Retired police officers and government servants generally from the home and law ministries
1 The union home secretaries and their predecessors
2 The various occupants of the Advisor to the Administrator post, various occupants of the home secretary portfolios at Chandigarh administration, various DGs and ex DGs or Inspector Generals at Chandigarh,
3 The ceremonial occupants of the governors post and predecessors
4 The present DIG Alok Kumar and the SSP Naunihal Singh and his predecessors
5 the lower level staff of chandigarh police including retirees
6 The present top police official of chandigarh --Pradeep Srivastava and his predecessors
7 The union home and law ministers --specially their hangers on, staff, family and manipulators who create the most political interference in the working of the police
8 The local bar council association
9 The lower level judiciary including the magistracy
10 the public prosecutors who work with the police to file the case in courts
Infact all stakeholders which also includes litigants, insurance companies and others.
Think tanks, ngos, writers etc such as Kiran Bedi herself or the ex DG BSF Mr Prakash Singh who had filed the PIL for getting the National Police Commission recommendations implemented in letter and spirit by the Supreme Court
Mr Rajbir Deswal and other regular contributors to the Tribune and other papers who are ex IPS or ex state police services or have been associated with the police at some stage or the other in their lives.
NGOs such as CHRI and those involved with human rights, crime fighting etc, the initiative called the lok police or the nipsa.in
Also the media associated with police reforms and police working--Magazines on law and policing
It would be nice to hear inputs from other readers on this since bad or inefficient policing affects our daily lives and the police organisation is one of the most abused in this country as well as the most abusive to the general public. Chandigarh police is definitely better than other police deptts but it needs to be improved in as many areas as possible
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