Re-Legitimizing Indian Police, Vols. I and II

Contents: Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Policing issues and trends. 2. The glimpse at the Archaic Indian police laws. 3. The accountability crisis. 4. The Indian Supreme Court’s initiative. 5. The state response. Conclusion. Appendices. Bibliography.

Post 9/11 has ushered a new era of policing. Where an emerging police model has to dynamically address the new challenges efficiently, employing the most effective tools at the proper intervention points for any given situation. It has to be capable of correlating and analyzing identification patterns, bahavioural patterns, association patterns and application patterns to produce a unified result, with optimum cost Now, all over the World the Civil Society Groups are striving to create and enforce mechanisms of police accountability as a basis for any police reform. There is a demand for increased legitimacy of policing and now police has to perform according to the demands of the stakeholders or perish.

So, an agenda for a police reform must fix its vision, mission, values strategic priorities and its statutory responsibilities towards the stakeholder.

In the backdrop the archaic Indian Police Act is a mismatch for its dynamically progressing democracy. Even the attempt taken by Police Act Drafting Committee, Govt. of India is inadequate. The book puts into record chronologically the issues and trends of policing across the globe, the various Police Acts of the different States of India as well as that of some leading Nations of the world, the accountability crisis which India is facing with a plethora of decided cases by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India and Several High Courts and some very valuable suggestion for a realistic Police Reform.