Citation

Maiti P. Crime Prev. Community Safety 2001; 3(3): 59-64.

Affiliation

Department of Political Science, Burdwan University, West Bengal, India

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group -- Palgrave-Macmillan)

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Abstract

The Indian police force is seldom considered to be a highly professional and regimented organisation characterized by discipline, honesty and efficiency. There is a general sense of popular suspicion that has alienated the Indian police from Indian civil society. Indian policemen, as generally elsewhere in the developing world, are regarded as villainous, trigger-happy characters appointed by the State to act as judges, jury and executioner on its behalf. The 'modern' Indian police force was structured as 'a defender of the Establishment' rather than as a professional organisation owing its accountability to democratic good governance and the Rule of Law, and this situation has changed little.