Police Reforms

The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday removed Renuka Mishra as the chairperson of the UP Police Recruitment and Promotion Board amid allegations of the question paper of a constable recruitment examination being leaked. Mishra has been put on the "wait list" after her removal from the post and Director Vigilance Rajiv Krishna given the additional responsibility of the board, official sources said. Following allegations of paper leak, the state government had on February 24 cancelled the police constable recruitment examination held on February 17 and 18, and ordered a re-test within six months. More than 48 lakh candidates appeared for the examination. The government had also announced that a Special Task Force (STF) would probe the allegations.

"We have all the evidence, and legal action is being taken. All these people will be sent to jail," Additional Superintendent of Police (Rural) Singh said. Further details are awaited

The direct link to the online application form for the Assam Police Constable Recruitment 2024 can be found on the official website at slprbassam.in

Singapore is considering hiring auxiliary police officers (APOs) from India, China, the Philippines and Myanmar, Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam told parliament on Wednesday. The city-State is looking to expand the jurisdictions from which it recruits APOs as the number from Taiwan has fallen in recent few years, As a result, the home affairs ministry has been considering expanding the jurisdictions where auxiliary police officers (APOs) can be recruited from. These potentially include Asian ones such as China, India, the Philippines and Myanmar, according to a Channel News Asia report. "We need to allow the Auxiliary Police Forces to recruit foreign APOs, to meet the increasing demand for security services," the Today newspaper also quoted the minister as saying. "(The Auxiliary Police Forces) face challenges in sustaining an adequate pool of APOs, given the shrinking local workforce, requirements such as physical fitness, and the job options Singaporeans have." He was

A think-tank working for police reforms on Wednesday claimed that most of the "regressive" provisions in colonial-era criminal laws have been retained in the three new bills pending before Parliament to replace the IPC, the CrPC and the Indian Evidence Act. The Indian Police Foundation (IPF) has submitted a memorandum to the parliamentary committee on Home, urging for fundamental changes in the Indian criminal justice system while enacting the three proposed laws -- Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) and Bharatiya Sakshya (BS) -- currently under consideration in Parliament. The BNS, the BNSS and the BS seek to replace the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) and the Indian Evidence Act, respectively. "While expectations were raised that the new legislations would present a unique opportunity to fix a broken criminal justice system, the IPF is disappointed that most of the regressive provisions in the colonial criminal la

The Centre has issued multiple advisories to states to increase the representation of women in police force to 33 per cent, but their actual strength as on January 1, 2022 stood at 11.75 per cent, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said the Ministry of Home Affairs has issued advisories dated April 22, 2013, May 21, 2014, May 12, 2015, June 21, 2019, June 22, 2021 and April 13, 2022 to all the state governments to increase the representation of women police to 33 per cent of the total strength. "According to data compiled by the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D), as on January 1, 2022, the actual strength of women police personnel is 11.75 per cent at all India level," he said in a written reply to a question. Ladakh has the highest percentage of women in police force (28.3 per cent), followed by Andhra Pradesh (21.7 per cent), Chandigarh (21.6 per cent) and Bihar (21.2 per cent). States with least share of ...

Police in Hansi in Haryana have developed a mobile application to keep track of criminals and people accused in different cases, an official spokesperson said. The app -- 'Criminal Monitoring System' -- is the first such attempt in the state to monitor and track an accused, the spokesperson said. Information about the accused and their crimes have been updated in the app, developed by police personnel in Hansi, he said. "Along with this, if a criminal is released from jail on parole, the police will immediately be notified. After this, police personnel will be able to get instant updates on that particular criminal on the app," he said. The application was launched by Superintendent of Police (Hansi) Nitika Gehlot. She said the app would be installed on the phones of all police personnel to enable them keep a close watch on the activities of criminals in their respective areas. "The app's main objective is to ensure that complete information about a criminal can be obtained whene

Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu called for a renewed thrust to implementing reforms in the police forces.

Kerala was the only state with 23 computers per 100 police officers: the rest of the states had fewer than 20 computers.

Neeraj Kumar, former commissioner of police, Delhi, says extortion and corruption in the force are the results of structural deficiencies. Excerpts from his interview with Aditi Phadnis

The bill titled the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021 has provisions to overhaul qualified immunity for law enforcement, prohibitions on racial profiling on the part of law enforcement

Most states have also failed to comply with directives that mandate minimum tenure for police officers

The US President said last Thursday that his administration was finalising an executive order that would encourage police departments to meet "professional standards"

McEnany said Trump's police reform initiative may come in the form of legislative proposals or executive orders

Besides investigation, the officers have to look into law and order, bandobast duties, manage patrolling duties amo­ng other things.

The India Justice Report by Tata Trusts released on November 7, 2019, finds women poorly represented, accounting for 7 per cent of the police 10 per cent of prison staff

In India, rape as an issue remains hostage to social and political contestations that ricochet between high-profile righteous indignation and spurious Bollywood-style anguish

Of 36 states and union territories (UTs) across the country, none had fully complied with police reforms ordered by the Supreme Court (SC) in 2006 with the aim to curb political interference

Earlier, the SC had allowed Upadhyay to intervene as a party in a pending PIL on police reforms