Private crime detection skills rare in India --BIG Opportunity for foreign trained professionals and Training Agencies

Sycophantic print media tends to label people in the IPS as top crime solvers when none or very few of them do or have done any investigative work at all. Even SHOs of police stations do not do any detective work in India but mostly administrative work. Infact the detective training schools are run down and the cadre of detectives, forensic experts, dog handlers etc etc are persona non grata in the scheme of things in the interior ministry.

The top dogs are the IAS/IPS officials who are the home secretaries who control everything related to the police department. The next rung are those from the IPS/SPS (state police services) who man the DGP's office and the top police setup in the state. Then the next effective rung is at the district or large city level --whether one calls them the Commissionerate or the district police etc

The last rung is the Police station itself where the real work is supposed to happen but doesn't --this is always manned by the state police services and sometimes a probationary IPS youngster. But these people do not have any inclination or incentive to nurture a good detective cell themselves. All promotions are based on how one can cosy up to seniors and do their bidding caring two hoots for the populace they are  supposed to be helping.

and on top of this gross inadequacy in the crime detection and solution system in indian policing our so called learned judges/magistracy tries to maintain status quo by either saying all is well on the law and order front or that even if police is inadequate in the area of crime detection and control, no private individual or body if acting as investigators in a civil or criminal case will be given any importance in a court of law.

I hope the Indian public wakes up to the actual state of affairs in our policing setup and the dire need for and importance of real detective work both via the police as well as private investigators in the country. Events in future will force the legislatures and the courts to recognise contributions made by private individuals and organisations in criminal and civil investigations and allow them to have a vocation in crime detection by standardising their certification and education/training.

We need specialised courses and interests for detectives and private investigators in our educational institutions.