On Wednesday 05 Sep 2007 2:33 pm, Nandkumar Saravade wrote: > http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Editorial/Mobs_on_the_rampage/articlesho >w/2337938.cms
Here are some Googled figures that tell their own story http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_pol_percap-crime-police-per-capita Also check this blog (from wheer I got the link to the figures) http://nitawriter.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/poor-people-to-police-ratio/ Police to population ratios: #1 Montserrat: 7.81501 per 1,000 people #2 Mauritius: 7.28432 per 1,000 people #3 Dominica: 6.40311 per 1,000 people #4 Italy: 5.55565 per 1,000 people #5 Hong Kong: 4.79374 per 1,000 people #6 Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: 4.7868 per 1,000 people #7 Portugal: 4.64878 per 1,000 people #8 Kazakhstan: 4.54998 per 1,000 people #9 Latvia: 4.51878 per 1,000 people #10 Czech Republic: 4.47613 per 1,000 people #11 Slovakia: 3.72086 per 1,000 people #12 Lithuania: 3.53934 per 1,000 people #13 Malaysia: 3.43936 per 1,000 people #14 Thailand: 3.35665 per 1,000 people #15 Kyrgyzstan: 3.25049 per 1,000 people #16 Slovenia: 3.14023 per 1,000 people #17 Moldova: 3.01481 per 1,000 people #18 Germany: 2.91153 per 1,000 people #19 Ireland: 2.8989 per 1,000 people #20 Hungary: 2.88528 per 1,000 people #21 Spain: 2.86696 per 1,000 people #22 South Africa: 2.7668 per 1,000 people #23 Estonia: 2.72543 per 1,000 people #24 Poland: 2.61367 per 1,000 people #25 Jamaica: 2.57054 per 1,000 people #26 Georgia: 2.46034 per 1,000 people #27 Norway: 2.42412 per 1,000 people #28 Turkey: 2.38057 per 1,000 people #29 Iceland: 2.24441 per 1,000 people #30 Romania: 2.18728 per 1,000 people #31 Colombia: 2.12215 per 1,000 people #32 Australia: 2.09293 per 1,000 people #33 France: 2.049 per 1,000 people #34 United Kingdom: 2.04871 per 1,000 people #35 Switzerland: 1.93617 per 1,000 people #36 Netherlands: 1.92448 per 1,000 people #37 Denmark: 1.91716 per 1,000 people #38 Chile: 1.85583 per 1,000 people #39 Korea, South: 1.85461 per 1,000 people #40 Japan: 1.81103 per 1,000 people #41 Sri Lanka: 1.72484 per 1,000 people #42 Canada: 1.70767 per 1,000 people #43 Zimbabwe: 1.68859 per 1,000 people #44 Finland: 1.56347 per 1,000 people #45 Zambia: 1.13674 per 1,000 people #46 Papua New Guinea: 0.985032 per 1,000 people #47 India: 0.956207 per 1,000 people #48 Costa Rica: 0.370767 per 1,000 people Weighted average: 3.0 per 1,000 people If India even wanted to achieve 2 policemen per thousand we would have to recruit more than one million more policemen. And if they needed better training and salaries? At an average (and paltry) 3000 Rupees a month it would cost an extra Rs 300 crore per month (3600 crore - nearly $ 1 billion a year) for salaries alone, apart from training, accommodation, infrastructure and pensions. It is doable I think, but I don't know if it is being done. shiv
