POLICE REFORMS WATCH
03/10/13
URGENT PRESS NOTE:
POLICE REFORMS WATCH COMPLIMENTS THE CHIEF MINISTER ON REDUCTION OF NETA COVER
. EXPECTED 600 COPS WILL BE DEPLOYED FOR CITIZENS SAFETY.
POLICE REFORMS WATCH DEMANDS IMPLEMENTATION OF POLICE REFORMS BY MAHARASHTRA
GOVERNMENT, NOW
It was heartening to observe that alteast the Chief Minister finally decided to
reduce the neta cover so that those cops would be available for ordinary
citizens.
We compliment the Chief Minister for this right decision although delayed but
never late..
We want to remind the Chief Minister the shortfall of 7403 police personnel
should be filled up as soon as possible. To add to this is in 2012, 28420
police personnel were deputed for VIP security. Chief Minister Sir, this
deployment of VIP security should also be looked into.
We urge the Chief Minister to finalise the transfers of Sr. IPS Police
Officials and not to leave it to politicking and unnecessary speculations.
As citizen's we are shocked at the complete callousness of the administration
in looking after our safety. At any given time only 20% of the police force is
available to ordinary citizens. This means that the effective cover for one
person is .021policemen per person( or 21 policemen per lac population). The UN
recommended minimum is 220 per lac population. The VIPs on the other hand has
1 policeman or more for every one VIPS.
Providing policemen for unnecessary security to a few very privileged people is
costing us our lives. This has to stop.
The city of 1.3 crores deserves to have well trained law abiding boots on the
ground available on call for everyone going about their daily business not to
create spurious special cases. Rather than making urgent changes in policing so
that it can be an effective service for the public the primary concern of every
government in power has been to make sure that the police keep doing their
bidding.
For 7 years Maharashtra government has resisted the Supreme Court's police
reforms package as well as the recommendations made by former police
commissioner Mr Julio Rebeiro and others. We as people of Mumbai demand that
police reforms NOW! When you fool around with Police Reforms, you are fooling
around with Women's lives.We want better policing. No Police Reforms No Safety
for Women. No safety for you and me.
The lack of Political will is not only obvious, but also suspicious. It
therefore becomes more imperative and we demand that POLICE REFORMS need to be
implemented by Maharashtra State without any further delay.
Warm regards,
Dolphy Elma D'souza
Convenor
POLICE REFORMS WATCH,
43, Kalina, Santacruz East, Mumbai 400 029.
Cell: 09820226227
Email: [email protected]
