POLICE PRESS BRIDGING GAP BETWEEN POLICE AND PEOPLE
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POLICE PRESS LETTER TO OM PRAKASH SINGH,Director General of Police (DGP),Uttar Pradesh
POLICE PRESS letter to DGP UTTAR PRADESH
No country for women! Women cop raped by sub-inspector in Uttar Pradesh police station: POLICE PRESS
POLICE PRESS New Delhi: In another shocking crime against women reported from Uttar Pradesh, a woman constable was raped by a sub-inspector on a number of occasions on the false pretext of marriage in Kasganj district. The victim alleged that the accused had sexually assaulted her over a period of many months. The accused, sub-inspector Piyush Singh has been booked under Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code and also under SC-ST Act for raping a woman constable working with him. Ashok Kumar Shukla, Superintendent of Police, Kasganj, confirmed the accused cop had been suspended and will be sent to jail. Moreover, the SP added that exemplary punishment will be ensured for the accused to deter all men in uniform from indulging in such heinous crimes. The incident yet again brings to the fore the question of women’s safety in India and how even places which are supposed to protect the law are vulnerable for a female in India. No country for women! Women cop raped by sub-inspect...
THE POLITICIZATION OF THE POLICE
POLICE PRESS Political involvement of the police is not per se a new phenomenon. Indeed it is well known that during colonial period the police were in politics in a way, to gain prominence during the 1980s. They often owned their jobs and promotions to the local alderman and were expected to cooperate with political wards, bosses and other sachems of the machines. The police are in all cases keenly sensitive to their political environment without in all cases being governed by it. Their political concerns are ordinarily reserved for those decisions affecting their careers as individual members of the bureaucracy. Yet there was traditionally another, perhaps more significant way in which the police were political as the active arm of the status quo. For decades the police were the main bulwark of the opposition, but most of these men experienced encounters with the police in their youth. But people have come to see the police as enforcers of the status quo. While these types...