In the year 2006, the Supreme Court of India passed directives aimed at removing the stranglehold of the ruling political dispensation over the police and to improve its efficiency and accountability. Among some of the main directives was the setting up of state security commissions to ensure state governments don’t exert undue pressure on the police; fixed tenure for police officers; transparent selection of state police chiefs; separation of investigation from law and order; and the establishment of a Police Complaints Authority to look into complaints against the police. Law and order being a state subject, each state was expected to establish a new Police Act to put these directives in motion. Till date, these orders have either not been implemented or have been carried out in a piecemeal fashion, defeating the very purpose and spirit of the Supreme Court judgement.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 12:08:14 +0000
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