Increase the salary and perks of Police personnel such that they don't need bribes to run their family. Also increase penalty incase if they are caught taking bribe, especially if the bribe is forced out of ordinary citizen try to accomplish their most necessity thru law enforcement agency.
Police Department should be made an autonomous body on the lines of the Judiciary and Election commission. All top appointments in the Police Department must be made by the President of India. It should never be under the administrative control of state ministers.
There is no gainsaying the fact that Policemen are as corrupt as our Government Babus and various other organizations in our country. May be, policemen are even more corrupt. I remember another case in Chennai when the sitting Judge dismissed the case, as the Police produced a Cell Phone that did not belong to the accused as evidence in the court. The case was: a TV actress was arrested for alleged prostitution. The actress told the court that the policemen simply barged into her flat, took away costly electronic items, including the cell phone. As her cell phone was of a costlier variety, someone in the police department pocketed it and replaced it with a cheaper variety, which was produced in the court as evidence. The actress narrated the whole thing in the Court and produced proof of her real cell phone, including its bill. The Judge passed strictures against the policemen and dismissed the case. This also happened in Chennai and widely reported in the Newspapers. Need one say more. And, it is the same all over India. The common man certainly dreads entering a police station in this country. That is the reputation the policemen enjoy. Need one say more!
RE:The Judge has merely stated a fact!
by R Balasubramanian on Jun 12, 2008 02:37 PM Permalink
now tell me frankly do you not regret why at all we gained independence? Churchill insisted that, India should never be given independence as he forethought that, if given, it will be ruled by scoundrels and criminals. Now the rest is history. My father was with Madras Police during sixties and he resigned the job as he could not tolerate the interferance of his seniors during his daily routine and investigation. I am sorry to say that the entire nation is corrupt and it cannot be weeded out.
This police idiots who are greedy about money will never change. If they are proper and strict in their duty then people will be perfect. They are the culprits for all the traffic related problems and all sorts of cheat and fraud problem prevailing in our country. I don't think they will change. Law should be made to punish severely up to the extent of hanging if a police person is found guilty. No transfers or suspensions as they know how to continue their job in that case.
