URGENT PRESS STATEMENT
POLICE REFORMS WATCH
Networking with Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), New Delhi
43, Kalina, Santacruz East, Mumbai - 400 029. l Tel : 98202 26227
Email : [email protected] l www.policereformswatch.org
ENSURE PLAN FOR BETTER POLICING FOR THE NEW MAHARASHTRA GOVERNMENT
POLICE REFORMS WATCH/ CHRI Delegations have been meeting/ raising the
issue with Political Parties and Contesting Candidates to make good policing
one of the key concerns of Good Governance.
Press Statement
Police Reforms Watch & the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
Mumbai, October 13, 2014
Police Reforms Watch [PRW] and and Commonwealth Human Rights
Initiative [CHRI ] notes with concern and consternation the utter lack of any
discussion on good policing in the run up to the Assembly elections. This is
despite the fact that good policing is an indispensable part of good governance
which every contestant of every political party, and even Independent
candidates, has been promising to the electorate.
On its part, PRW has been undertaking persistent efforts to get the
good policing manifesto across to candidates and political parties, and has got
quite a positive response. In fact, some of them have unequivocally endorsed it
and pledged their support
PRW / CHRI have already met with Ms Poonam Mahajan- BJP, Mr. Asif
Bhamla -NCP, Adv. Godfrey Pimenta - Maharashtra Swarajya Party, Mr. Sandeep
Desphande-MNS.
At the Election Special by Headlines on October 07 at Dadar, when PRW
team raised the issue, Ms Shweta Parulkar -Shiv Sena publicly confirmed that
Shiv Sena was committed to implementing police reforms. At the Doordarshan
Janvani on October 10 when PRW team raised the issue of Better Policing, Mr.
Madhav Bhandari, Spokesperson-BJP Maharashtra said it emphatically that if they
come to power, they would implement Police Reforms. Mr. P.K.Jain, IPS Retd and
Vice-President-RPI also supported on following through on the Reforms and work
with PRW .
We have attached the copy of the Memorandum, manifesto to the
political parties on Good Policing and the critique against the new law,
Maharashtra Police Amendment and Continuance Act, 2014 and how it deviates from
the Supreme Court directives. . These were handed to the concerned persons at
the time of our interaction.
PRW, and the denizens of Mumbai, call upon every stakeholder cutting
across party lines to make good policing a part of their agenda for good
governance.
For more information, contact:
Dolphy D'souza
Convenor
Cell: 09820226227
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