India needs fair and unbiased policing; it remains a distant dream

The report 'Status of Policing in India 2018' draw a clear-eyed composite of what the police are equipped to do, how well they do it and how the public sees it.

Officialdom often likes to bad-mouth civil society organisations and NGOs for doing little of worth. The recently released report on the ‘Status of Policing in India 2018′ from Common Cause and Centre for the Study of Developing Societies once again proves what valuable work civil society constantly does.

The report combines hard data from government sources with surveys of public perception of policing to draw a clear-eyed composite of what the police are equipped to do, how well they do it and how the public sees it.

The report covers 22 states leaving out the ones with a population of between six