WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

POLICE NEED TO WORK HARDER

WHERE our daughters, sisters and wives are vulnerable to ghastly crimes, the whole talk of women empowerment is a sham.

 As long as conviction rate remains low, rapes will keep happening.

The police force from top to bottom, needs to be upright, honest and energetic. The grit, determination, perseverance, innovation and stamina of the investigating agencies are abysmally low and smack of apathy and neglect in investigation and registration of rape cases.

                                                                                                                                          

Deterrent laws and better quality of investigation and protection are required to take or other criminal cases to their logical end in courts.

Judges have legal compulsions, they cannot go by emotions and sentiments but by evidence and facts presented by Prosecution Department. The Criminal Law Amendment Bill dealing with sexual offences should be made deterrent by incorporating exemplary punishment to the rapists.

                                                            Dr. SOSHIL RATTAN, Amritsar.

Source: A letter to the editor, The Tribune December 24, 2012.

Police and Puvblic

1. Role of Police in Public Protection

At the international level Interpol with 190 countries as members connects the police of different countries to make the world a safer place to live. Inter country crimes are handled by Interpol major being drug peddling and human trafficking in addition to other organized crimes like gang wars, smuggling, murders etc.

In our country’s  Federal system as enshrined in our Constitution, the police is recruited at 2 levels one at centre and second at state’s levels. .

At the centre, Police officers are selected through rigorous selection procedure  through Civil Services exam conducted Union Public Service Commission and  such officer are designated as I P SI(Indian Police Service)  officers. They are sent to the states by  Ministry of Home Affairs which is responsible for ultimate maintenance of law and order in the country.

At the state level, State Service Commissions conduct the exam for police officer and those officers support the IPS officers in maintaining law and order in the state.  Many officers of the rank of DSP and SP belong to the state cadre.

Other officers below the rank of DSP are selected through selection procedure adopted by the department of police.

Responsibility of the police is to protect the lives and property of the people, many security and surveillance divisions within the police are there in the state:

Crime Investigation Agency, CES Counter Espionage Services, Traffic Police, Cyber Crime Investigation Wing, Economic Offences Wing, Motor Vehicle Tracking Wing, Crimes against Child and Women Investigation Wing are major.

           The major crimes the police generally handles belong to :

1)      Corruption 2) Crime against Children or Child Abuse Crimes 3) Crime against Women 4) Cyber Crimes 5) Narcotic and Drug Crimes 6) Environmental Crimes ) Financial Crimes or Economic Crimes 7) Fugitive Investigation i.e. Proclaimed Offenders who do not surrender before law 8) Intellectual Property Crimes 9) Counterfeiting crimes (Fake Currency) 10) Maritime crimes – Pirates and ships  11) Organized Crimes 12) Pharmaceutical Crimes (Life of humans is dependent on many medicine – fake or duplicate of which are thrown in the market) 13) Tracing Missing Persons 14) Tracking and tracing Most Wanted Persons    

At the international level, Interpol’s Global Network assists the  police to track such crimes and at state level the national and state police track such crimes to make our world crime free.