Lately
we notice that police force has become increasingly more arrogant to
citizens and behave unruly while on duty. The concept of Vigilant
Police force I visualized to help in controlling normal police force
so that they will behave properly and perform their duty in the
appropriate manner. In addition to that, this concept if accepted by
our government we can create additional employment opportunity for
our retired Jawans from Army, Navy and Air forces. These retired
Jawans are employment worthy and their rehabilitation is also a
matter of concern.
At
present, we do not have any reliable system that can help control
police force from misbehaving with people. Present laws have given
such sweeping powers to ordinary constables whose ability to judge
various happenings in every day life appropriately is poor and not
reliable and as a result, often constables take wrong decisions
causing very serious inconvenience to concerned citizens. These
constables frequently think that they have authority to do whatever
they may please and as this mentality grows amongst them, they are
tempted to misuse that uncontrollable authority. As this happens, we
see many wrong applications of this authority by these constables.
Not only ordinary constables but also officers of higher position are
tempted to do the same mistake knowingly or unknowingly. As this
happens, we see atrocities committed by our police force. Corruption
in our police force is largely attributed to this phenomenon. To have
a reasonably good police force they must be at least psychology
graduates to understand and interpret problems but we see that most
police are uneducated.
Law
experts told me that giving sweeping powers in the hands of our
police force is done by British rulers, because our laws are designed
by them who considered every Indian citizen as a criminal from their
capitalist point of view.
To
avoid misuse of this sweeping power by police personnel we need
people who are mature enough to know how to implement these laws.
That needs persons mentally normal. However, recent research has
shown that most of police are not fit to become good police officers.
While recruiting them no special care is taken to find out what is
their psychological state. Many of our problems in pubic life are due
to this shortcoming. Most of our government offices are
psychologically not fit for the type of responsibility they are
entrusted. Some suggest that paying them higher salaries will bring
order but many psychologists do not agree to this solution. They add
that paying higher salary will not make them mentally normal but on
the contrary that may spoil them more. We have many wrong social
practices and some other experts attribute this misbehavior to those
bad social practices.
Who
will staff that vigilance force that will keep vigilant watch on all
police? Constables, moving in city on their bikes during patrol often
catch innocent citizen and try to frighten them by accusing them of
crime they have not done and when that citizen gets frightened by
that accusation (primarily, due to lack of knowledge of laws
concerned) yields to the wrong demands of these police. This is the
general modus operandi of these police persons. We have such
complicated legal system that it is often difficult to argue with
accusing police. As a result, at that time that police on street is
High Court and also Supreme Court! Ordinary citizen is very helpless
in that situation. To stop this we need some force who will keep
these erring police under control. We cannot expect these simple
citizens to know all these complicated laws, which even well trained
solicitors find difficult to interpret. At present this atrocious
behavior has reached such a position that, something has to be done.
Misuse of authority, misinterpretation of law, trying to blackmail
people is common crime committed by our police force. All this they
do because they know that ordinary people are not well versed in laws
those surround them.
All
this discussion finally adds that the only option is to have other
force that can keep watch on these police personnel. Some arrangement
will bring a deterrent effect and control misbehaving police. This is
where the concept of vigilant police force came to my mind. At
present, they have vigilant department within police but that does
not function appropriately. There is general tendency among these
departments to cover the erring office and as a result no proper
action taken and the accused police office or constable is let off
with small or no penalty. Delays in inquiries helps the erring police
staff. This leads one to think of an alternative arrangement to
resolve this problem. This vigilant police will be answerable only to
High Court or Governor. That will keep political pressures out of
reach to them and that will help them do their duty properly.
Vigilant
police force will be carved out of retired Army, Navy and Air Force
personnel. Those, who are interested in serving the country. Who are
able bodied and hold capacity to serve. Such personnel will be
appointed in this vigilant police force. Age limit will be about 45
upwards, married or widower, having good sense of conscience; these
are qualities such candidate will have. They will not have any
uniform and so police will never know who they are. However, they
will carry an identity card with them. They will be trained to keep
watch on police wherever they are posted.
Citizens
or NGOs will complain against police personnel who are doing the
crime of misusing the authority vested in them. The job of this
police is to investigate the complain and to do that they can take
charge of accused police and do all that usually police do with
accused suspect citizen. May be in a chumpy room, if required. Their
power will cover all police personnel including the highest officer
in the police department. They will be answerable only to governor.
But even governor will not interfere in their work. This police force
will not take into their custody any citizen because they are
appointed only to discipline police force. however, they can receive complains from citizens.
Appointment
of this Vigilant Police force will work as a powerful deterrent to
police who are feeling very over confident about their super powers.
If this experiment to control corruption in police department works
well, we can extend this to other government departments also to
check corruption in our larger bureaucracy. There are other many
advantages in this arrangement. We can create an employment for these
retired personnel. These people retiring from forces are actually in
good working health and so they are having this problem. By creating
this Vigilant Police force, we solve that problem also. They will be
trained to work like CID on their recruitment. They will place ECTV
cameras to watch prison cells and such places where often police
personnel torture suspects. This is required because as per my
information many molestation are done on women suspects by these
police.
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