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| Community policing in India should be encouraged | | | KHUSHWANT S RANIAL | 12/11/2011 7:25:37 PM |
| The growing graph of the crime rate can be checked by the introduction and then popularization of the community policing in India without further delay. Such an adoption of the new model can provide respite to the police of its existing workload to concentrate more effectively on the trivial issues which generally seeks time and space but due to inadequate measures, police fails on many fronts to deliver well despite wishes to excel better. And at the face of the failures, policemen have to bear the brunt of the society unintentionally. The relentless contribution made during previous endeavours goes unnoticed and unrecognised. Perhaps to overcome this flaw, many advanced nations in the European part of Globe have promoted the culture of Community Policing.
In fact, Japanese police recognises the permissiveness of the thin lining between the police and the public to accommodate the ideas and suggestion of the public to speedily arrive at the conclusion by redressing the genuineness of the complaints. In other words, Japanese police is accepted as an integral unit of the Japanese Community. As a result of which they keep on sharing the problems, thoughts by indulging in the policing, counselling, advising and evolving solutions through deliberations frequently without any inhibition or dealing things in isolation. In our India, as such there are no strong provisions though occasionally efforts are also made realising the importance of this aspect to strengthen the police -Public relations to remove the doubts.
Honestly speaking ,there are provisions laid in The Indian Police Act of 1861 for the appointment of special police officers to assist the police force .Further the National Police Commission Report laid down in year 1977 have also made recommendations favouring community policing to be encouraged as an integral part of policing activities in India. In a nation, owning over than one billion souls, the services of one policeman is rendered to around 750 citizens and with such a diverse nature of work changing continuously, it is always an exaggeration to expect the police force to handle the multiple tasks without use of the old traditional methods, very often cashing the trouble for the policeman . No doubt with the arrival of advanced scientific gadgets things have become reliable easier ,apparent one and provides crystal clear directions telling investigator for which way to proceed but the expectations and over exerted pressure of the public to have quick disposal of their problems by arriving at the inferences does not often meet the standards of the qualitative workmanship of a policeman .And the end result is the growth of animosity and points towards the suspicion of the needle of the police action.
Thus in the light of these very facts, it becomes urgent that community policing in India should be too encouraged like the developed nations as Holland, UK, China ,US and Canada have done so. The basic cause of advocating Community Policing is to promote interaction between the Police and Public to generate sensation and feeling for one another .It requires competing for the hearts and minds of Police officers. The traditional crime fighting culture does not consider issues among people as real police work .It is otherwise rated to be a social work whereas this aspect needs to be viewed and addressed from very close quarters. The Police department must come out of the shell to delimit the policy of adhering to specific units, programmes, strategies and means of dealing with the problems. Efforts should be made to make every police officer a community policing officer, truly accepting the forwarded ideas which can help in crime prevention and equally regard crime prevention and service functions as an important as law enforcement work. The public must also committed in realising their essential role in crime prevention and should from the core of the heart lend valuable sources, information without delay which is generally not so.
Community policing aims to bring changes by replacing hard with soft, repressive with preventive and reactive with proactive policing .Promotion of Zero tolerance through the use of community policing can definitely help in improving the quality of life of people in communities by reducing the nuisance and petty offences which often becomes the cause of concern. Community policing should be integrated with the purpose mission, special training, crime analysis, police department policies, procedures and measurement systems. The growing scenario around the world has forced to think to bring in changing with the changing times. Time has come that old conservative culture which resists the intrusions of the civilians in the forming the policy matters in dealing the community issues be shun away .It is because it is seen that a rigid structure clearly discourages the drive and initiative. How unfortunate it is that upon whom the rule is to be applied are kept away from the discussion panel forcing police itself to wander in the wilderness and darkness without forming any ideology to remove the malady. And when good sense prevails to seek the assistance of the community, very often it has been observed that much of the water had flown out of the jug.
In order to overcome this issue, the utmost necessity is to give due importance to the beat system culture which has been dying slowly. In many parts of India, it has almost lost its significance and it is only on the papers to fill the formalities. Apart, there should be recruitment of Community Police officers at every beat level to maintain the flow of information with the beat in charge constable and active intelligence inputs must be monitored and filtered very seriously without delay to plug the dissemination of the disease. Honorary selection of those community officers must be weighed and viewed in the light of their active participation and their efforts be recognised and should be specially decorated ,awarded during the functions held on the eve of national days like Republic day and Independence days. To boost their morale, they should rather be allowed to don the Police uniform on these special days. Until the widened gap between the police and public does not recede, there is minimal scope of lowering the crime rate. In gist, the community policing through decentralisation is urgent need of the hour and it should be encouraged to take an intelligence led ,proactive ,problem solving approach to enable to focus on and tackle the local issues. |
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