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Francis,
I agree with you, Kiran Bedi is a person who did a lot
of good work, Tihar jail is one of her best examples
But KPS Gill although infamous for that one incident,
cleaned Punjab of terrorist activities and allowed the
people to live in peace.
Just a little thought.
Sonia do Rosario Gomes
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I wonder if we're not doing our guardians a great
disservice
here..just a few gadgets and some image
processing??
Sounds rather simplistic. Whilst western police
forces have
advanced considerably in their social standing as a
career
choice, Third World police jobs have plummeted
economically.
Western (US, EU, Can, AU) policemen average a
monthly
take-home pay of $5,000 - on par with a good govt.
job or
high-school teacher in the west (the 3 coveted job
areas).
Contrast this with our poor havaldars who earn under
$100
monthly, all the Pay Commissions notwithstanding.
Actually
most Third World (NE Europe, SE Asia, S. America
Africa)
police forces are corrupt not because they 'want'
to, but
simply because they have to!! How do cops in these
deprived
nations (they all average $100 monthly) support a
wife and
kids, pay school fees, household expenses, etc on $
3 a day, all
the while whole families sharing 'dormitory' style
accomodation
in slum-like dingy barracks or 'police-lines'
separated by no more
than a torn curtain?! Do you wonder at their high
suicide rates?
What I can remark about India is that 'officers'
higher up in the
echelon are far better off than the ordinary
havaldar, profiting
themselves from an unprecedented 'hafta' system of
unauthorised
monthly deductions from their juniors, further
worsening their
plight. Look at the similarly crippled police forces
in S. America and
esp. Brazil as they battle the bikers, the
vigilantes, the anti-police
assasins. All horribly paid. At least Goan police
vehicles function. In
the Balkans, or even throughout Africa '911' simply
doesn't exist
as the police refuse to come saying their vehicles
'have no fuel !'.
Having said that, there is hope yet for our forces
particularly after
the advent of Kiran Bedi and Julio Ribeiro (of
course wiping out the
memory of that infamous KPS Gill!). The fault
really, is ours, dog
biscuits notwithstanding. The yearly budgetary
allocations for the
police are the worst in our central state govts.
It is the greedy
politicians who are stealing from our police and not
the police who
give us poor service. Join Floriano in kicking out
the rotten politicians
and giving our police better pay. Then take our
havaldars to task.
With the prices of essentials doubling and tripling
in Goa, raising police
pay drastically is the need of the hour. Mind you,
elsewhere it could
be relative. A couple of years back, in Russia I
spoke to the police-
chief in Elista (capital of Kalmykia, not far from
Chechnya) a gregarious
individual sporting a gigantic handle-bar moustache.
He was earning
the princely sum monthly of 1,500 roubles, and
living pretty decently
in a depressed economy. But the rouble was
exchanging at 30 roubles
to the dollar, which meant his monthly pay-check was
the equivalent
of $ 50 ! Try living on that in the modern India (or
Goa) of today !
FR.
...
Helga:
I if wonder if the officer cops of the IPS cadre do
better?Why
should our forensics not be at par withthe rest of
the world?
Its just a few gadgets and some image processing -
a piece of
cake for our IT dudes. What is not is getting these
hawaldars
to not put half of the money for equipment in their
pockets so they can
have a constant supply of batatwadas which I guess
is the Indian equivalent
of donoughts/donuts?
Elisabeth:
Come on chaps, get with it. What about sketch
artists?
What about fingerprints?
