High Time for Police reforms: Aridamanjit Singh NISHAN NGO
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13 January, 2010
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It was agreed by the political leadership in principle that “it is the people who perform and not the laws” but what we have been doing is enacting laws to make police more powerful and effective and enacted draconian laws like TADA and POTA and reduced India into a military state for which ultimately people paid the price and still paying for corrupt and completely inefficient police organizational leadership.
They expressed that it is the organizational leadership that is responsible for developing vision for policy formulation to keep the departments performance oriented, whether it is military planning for the defence of country or the police planning for the security of the nation, it is conceived by the organizational leadership that continues with such organizations for 3 to 4 decades and cannot be left to the political governments that are elected for five years.
The police reforms propagated on the intervention of apex court have not changed much on ground for a common man but the corruption and apathy in police functioning continues unashamedly driving hapless people to suicides and living in ignominy in the world’s largest electoral democracy.
The core team that undertook this exercise interacted with media persons here under the leadership of Nishan Director and former BSF officer Aridaman jit Singh. They informed that the joint efforts of Team Nishan and Team URJA shall be directed at making the Indian Police performance oriented, accountable to laws deserved by the democracy to serve and protect its citizens and make it a mass movement across the country. They said it was the New Year resolution of the two organisations to work together and bring other like-mined people under the umbrella of this movement.
Aridamanjit Singh, who is associated with NATO too, told media-persons that his team had been conducting research on Indian Police System for past several years and the crux of its findings was just opposite to the general perception and the claims of the police leadership. He said it was high time that the fashion of blaming the politicians for all the evils and ills of the police is done away with. As the real culprits was Indian Police Service leadership. Instead, it is the Indian Police Service, its imperial legacy, militarised framework and also the archaic police rules that were actually responsible for the rot in the justice dispensation machinery.
Responding to a query, Singh said he was of the opinion that the IPS should be scrapped immediately and a single window recruitment system must be created to replace it. Under the new system everybody who entered the police hierarchy would join police as a constable and must spend at least four years in field.
Melisha Gordon, a former Special Police Officer from
Speaking on behalf of URJA, Roshan Suchan informed that under the supervision of Aridamanjit Singh, the team comprising of Melisha Gordon and Manisha Singh of Team Nishan and Kavita Jindal,Surjeet Nehra and Vikrant Singh Rathi interacted with Congress Candidate Bharat Singh, INLD candidate Abhay Singh and Samasta Bharatiya Party candidate Kusum Chaudhary. The aim of the exercise was to apprise them of the ideas of the movement and to seek their opinion on this matter. All of them have conveyed their willingness to support this cause wholeheartedly. He said as a newly formed organisation of creative and dedicated youths, URJA would support the efforts of Nishan to spearhead the movement for democratisation of Indian Police System.
The NGO can be reached through following web links:
http://community.webshots.com/user/Nishan_Justice
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