Are rogues of IPS responsible for spiraling crime, corruption and insurgencies in India

 Congratulations Mr. Gajendra Singh Chaudhary.(Does India Need IPS headed Policing) It is for the first time in the history of post British India that I am reading an article that has been written to address an issue that forms the backbone of spiraling crime and corruption and criminalization of the police in post British India. During British era police in India was brutal but certainly not criminalized and violating the principle of “Due process”.

In the post British India, the phenomenon of encounter specialist cops doing cold blooded murders in the streets, is all creation of rogue minds of IPS, who see power not as medium of “service” but “dominance & Authority”, rather in true sense if we compare them with street criminals of violent crimes and extortion, police will be found to be doing the same acts with complete impunity and protection of these very rogue IPS. Criminalization and corruption in police is all due to lack of integrity among IPS, who wield absolute authority without any direct accountability, and you will find vast majority of them suffering from authoritarian and dominance tendencies for lacking professionalism.

I had written to UPSC, as to how they check the aptitude for candidates of IPS and they replied there is no specific test designed to identify such an aptitude needed specifically to be police officer, but there after they introduced one and prospective candidates of UPSC had gone on strike outside Dholpur House.

Police in Indian states has graduated to organized criminal acts that are covered on live TV to eliminate the controversial goons and politicians. All the credit goes to elitist and glorified IPS for criminalization of police. The murder of Atiq Ahmed was live telecast with complete police patronage. The Gill era in Punjab with thousands of cold blooded murders in fake encounters is testimony to the trait of authoritarianism that created millionaire cops and it continues and spread across India.

Everyone cannot become a police officer. One needs to have aptitude and Turning an individual into a professional police officer is highly transformative and comprehensive process and involves time duration to enable an individual to pick up the nuances of the profession.

‪But the intake system in the police in India is totally retrograde to this aspect. The officers of IPS remain devoid of practical experience and acquire superfluous experience in limited periods as mere fomality. And instead of taking professional policing decisions, they take political decisions, resorting to shortcuts for instant results and in turn they transform the complete policing into the gang of criminals as was described by Justice Anand Narain Mulla of the Allahabad High Court who had once famously remarked that “there is not a single lawless group in the whole of the country whose record of crime comes anywhere near the record of that organised unit which is known as the police in India".

‪I remember I had written a letter to commissioner Delhi Police on the suspension of an SHO and at that time, I mentioned to him that the IPS are nothing but “Chair force” and always pitted against “ police force”.

‪I am happy that professionals like Mr. Chaudhary have began taking interest on this aspect of governance and now there can be hope that police reforms may begin in the right direction, the kind of Reforms that need to take place from the perspective of the citizens of post British India. The IPS deputation to Central armed police forces need to immediately stop since they remain devoid of practical operational and administrative experience In these forces at the grass roots, no training, capsule or academic degree can substitute the practical operational and administrative experience.

Police personnel in every Indian state are trained like infantry combatants, same story goes for the Central police Forces.

It is the police working that provokes conflict, escalates it and turns it into full blown insurgency, all due to incompetent and unprofessional IPS heading the state police organizations and when similar incompetent lot is allowed to throng the Central police organizations too, Indians rot in the simmering heat of conflicts and insurgencies.

Police system in India needs complete radical overhaul with restructuring, retraining and demilitarization and decentralization with a paradigm shift from current intake system of IPS.