The CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) The CBI is a sorry apology for a national investigational force that has the internal all-country mandate of an FBI, an RCMP (Mounties) or an MI5.
For starters, the CBI has no direct recruitment process and is dependent on a deputation system that absorbs police personnel from other police and para-military forces including the BSF (Border Security Force) the Home Guards, the Central and State Reserve Police Forces, the CISF (Central Industrial Security Force) and the various RPFs (Railway Protection Forces) . In principle the deputation procedure is supposed to make available to this senior force the best of the other junior forces but in actual practice over the years since Indian independence, the best brains have gone to RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) which is equivalent to the CIA, the Canadian CSIS or the British MI6 and to the prestigious NSG (National Security Guards - the Black Cat Commandos). This is because political interference has made the CBI a tool of the current ruling party as so rightly pointed out in this forum. Due to this, no self-respecting senior police officer willingly takes a transfer to his deputation term there. He has to be pushed into it and his service conduct rules have to be invoked or promotion threatened to make him take that posting. Not to say some CBI chiefs have not tried to do their jobs well. They disappointingly found out that they were emasculated at every turn. Just as there is an unwritten rule that top performers in the UPSC exam are given the first shot at the IFS (indian Foreign Service), followed in merit by the IAS, the IPS (Indian Police Service), and the IAAS (Indian Audit and Accounting Service), in descending order, so also now it seems the CBI ranks as the least desirable in terms of force candidate preference with RAW at the top. If one were to visit the CBI office at Tanna House in Colaba Bombay, one would be appalled at the obsolete furniture, even more obsolete computer equipment and the general dowdy ambiance and accompanying morale there. Of course occasionally the Bureau will rise to a certain investigation in a stellar manner but if you follow it through, you will discover that it sputters and dies out. Whether this is due to major political interference, poor follow up at legal prosecution stage or a lack of resources, I shall leave it to you to figure out. Roland. On 1/7/07, Radhakrishnan Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<<Naguesh Bhatcar wrote: CBI tends to be conveniently 'used' by the party in power at the Centre, to serve its political needs!>> I agree, sir! -- RKN
