{"id":27169,"date":"2018-10-23T11:11:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T05:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=27169"},"modified":"2018-10-23T11:11:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T05:41:30","slug":"a-modern-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-modern-police\/","title":{"rendered":"A modern Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/editorials\/a-modern-police-bjp-government-jammu-kashmir-moaists-insurgents-4866092\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A modern police<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: (Indian Express, Editorial<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context <\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Government spending money on police infrastructure is only the first step.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Modernisation \u00a0of police infrastructure : Statistics<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government has finally put numbers to the speeding up the modernisation of India\u2019s creaking police infrastructure. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cash on the table is substantial: <\/span><b>Rs 25,000 crore<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> over three years, of which over Rs 18,000 crore will come from the Union government. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Police in Jammu and Kashmir, the Northeast and states fighting Maoists will receive the largest share of the money, Rs 10,132 crore, to meet their needs for everything from modern weapons to hiring helicopters. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For police forces across the country, hard-hit by funding cuts, this is good news.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is the background?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the wake of the 26\/11 attacks on Mumbai, the Union government had significantly enhanced support for police modernisation. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2015, though, the government terminated financial support for creating physical infrastructure, like police stations, housing, forensic labs, and training institutions. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The idea was that state governments would pick up the slack. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In practice, police budgets in most states have been under severe stress, with police left unable in some cases to even meet routine expenditure, like purchasing new vehicles or meeting fuel bills.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Problems with police modernisation earlier<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hard questions need to be asked about how this cash will be spent and whether it alone will be enough to give Indian citizens better policing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For one, the post-26\/11 police modernisation effort suffered from poor conception and execution. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Police stations on the coast have rotted away; expensive boats no longer work; guns purchased for commando units turned out to be impracticable. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While physical infrastructure improved, its use didn\u2019t: New forensic labs were built, for example, but police on ground remained unskilled in modern investigation techniques. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For years, experts backed by the Supreme Court, have been calling for new legislation to insulate the police from political interference. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though many states have passed new police legislation, few have respected the Supreme Court\u2019s injunction to ensure these laws give functional autonomy to the top police leadership. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the absence of <\/span><b>autonomy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, there can be no accountability and the consequences of a lack of accountability have been demonstrated across the country, in everything from the collapse of police during Haryana\u2019s Jat agitation, to botched prosecutions. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Conclusion<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Police modernisation isn\u2019t just about guns or buildings. The successes of the new police modernisation scheme will have to be judged not by the cash it delivers, but how far the government is able to use this financial leverage to actually deliver better policing to citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A modern police: (Indian Express, Editorial Context Government spending money on police infrastructure is only the first step. Modernisation \u00a0of police infrastructure : Statistics The government has finally put numbers to the speeding up the modernisation of India\u2019s creaking police infrastructure. The cash on the table is substantial: Rs 25,000 crore over three years, of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-modern-police\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A modern Police<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704626394},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}