The game of passing the buck mastered by both the central as well as state government's continues to be played with both alacrity and a renewed sense of purpose, the issue this time being the rather contentious, controversial and oft discussed long pending police reforms........
New Delhi (read the Centre) wants the states to bite the bullet and assume the leading role in implementing several measures and suggestions made by the second Administrative Reforms Council (ARC) on the long standing issue of better, more efficient and far more professional policing without having done anything whatsoever in this regard on it's part other than letting the same report gather dust over the last four years and more......
Nodal Agency, the Union Home Ministry which had send out missives to all the states asking them to revert back by April 15 with valid suggestions on the recommendations and suggestions made by the ARC has thus far woefully failed to even implement those suggestions as well as recommendations that exclusively fall under the purview of the Union Government, more specifically or succinctly in Union territories including the national capital.........
Even the much touted and hyped Model Police Act that envisages or visualises well defined roles and demarcation of duties of the police force and the responsiveness and sensitivity shown by the same towards the common man are still to be adopted and assume the shape and form of a concrete structure or law as yet........
Other timely relevant and incisive suggestions such as the one's pertaining to the abolition of the outdated and archaic orderly system from within the annals of the police force and the introduction of a professional investigative system wherein the district attorney would oversee, overview and guide investigations into crimes committed in districts and last but not the least complete devolution or separation of the investigative and the other arms of the police force have been reduced to nothing more than discussion or debating points during the course of numerous seminars and conferences held on the long standing issue of police reforms......
The Supreme Court had come up with seven relevant and necessary recommendations on this issue as far back as 2006; and these suggestions included the laying down of a minimum prescribed term of two years of continuous service for the ranks of the State Director General of Police Commissioner of Police and officers on sensitive operational duties, complete and clinical separation of the the investigative and law and order functions of the police and many other such allied measures that would immunise as well as insulate the police from political interference in the discharging of their duties on a daily basis, but as usual nothing much has been done in this regard as well other glossing over the recommendations and paying cursory lip service to them........
There however is a silver lining to this rather dark cloud looming over the horizon over this blow hot blow cold issue of initiation and implementation of police reforms; the matter will come up for hearing before a Supreme Court Bench on April 25 wherein the home ministry will have to furnish concrete and plausible reasons for it's woeful failure to begin the long delayed process of the initiation and beginning of police reforms........
Will this hearing help in getting matters of the ground at long last or then will it be back to square one with both the centre as well as the states continuing to pass the buck around as has become their wont and continued practice in this regard, well your guess on this one is as good as mine........
New Delhi (read the Centre) wants the states to bite the bullet and assume the leading role in implementing several measures and suggestions made by the second Administrative Reforms Council (ARC) on the long standing issue of better, more efficient and far more professional policing without having done anything whatsoever in this regard on it's part other than letting the same report gather dust over the last four years and more......
Nodal Agency, the Union Home Ministry which had send out missives to all the states asking them to revert back by April 15 with valid suggestions on the recommendations and suggestions made by the ARC has thus far woefully failed to even implement those suggestions as well as recommendations that exclusively fall under the purview of the Union Government, more specifically or succinctly in Union territories including the national capital.........
Even the much touted and hyped Model Police Act that envisages or visualises well defined roles and demarcation of duties of the police force and the responsiveness and sensitivity shown by the same towards the common man are still to be adopted and assume the shape and form of a concrete structure or law as yet........
Other timely relevant and incisive suggestions such as the one's pertaining to the abolition of the outdated and archaic orderly system from within the annals of the police force and the introduction of a professional investigative system wherein the district attorney would oversee, overview and guide investigations into crimes committed in districts and last but not the least complete devolution or separation of the investigative and the other arms of the police force have been reduced to nothing more than discussion or debating points during the course of numerous seminars and conferences held on the long standing issue of police reforms......
The Supreme Court had come up with seven relevant and necessary recommendations on this issue as far back as 2006; and these suggestions included the laying down of a minimum prescribed term of two years of continuous service for the ranks of the State Director General of Police Commissioner of Police and officers on sensitive operational duties, complete and clinical separation of the the investigative and law and order functions of the police and many other such allied measures that would immunise as well as insulate the police from political interference in the discharging of their duties on a daily basis, but as usual nothing much has been done in this regard as well other glossing over the recommendations and paying cursory lip service to them........
There however is a silver lining to this rather dark cloud looming over the horizon over this blow hot blow cold issue of initiation and implementation of police reforms; the matter will come up for hearing before a Supreme Court Bench on April 25 wherein the home ministry will have to furnish concrete and plausible reasons for it's woeful failure to begin the long delayed process of the initiation and beginning of police reforms........
Will this hearing help in getting matters of the ground at long last or then will it be back to square one with both the centre as well as the states continuing to pass the buck around as has become their wont and continued practice in this regard, well your guess on this one is as good as mine........
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