Re: [silk] security and choosing sides

[Nandkumar Saravade]

Badri Natarajan wrote: IMO, many of the ills the Indian police is guilty of can be traced to their governance structure. (I am speaking here as an interested party.) There is an exercise at present to create a new law which will Wasn't there some kind of famous Commission report from the 70s or 80s which went into the issue in some detail and pretty much nailed down the comprehensive reasons (still applicable today) for why the police are so messed up? (Basically, not paid enough and completely abused by the state government's power over them). I'm blanking on the name of the report, although I vaguely remember reading it on some Geocities page a long time ago.. Badri That is the famous National Police Commission, headed by Dharam Vira.  The remarkably comprehensive report (in many volumes) came out in the early eighties and had it been implemented, would have changed the face of law enforcement in India.  (Report available at http://www.geocities.com/npcreport/.  Another good resource on police reforms in India is the CHRI site http://www.humanrightsinitiative.org). Thanks to the common understanding between the political and bureaucratic powers that be the report remained a dead letter.  Nandkumar