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The
Soli Sorabjee Committee for Police Reforms has recommended sweeping
changes in the 1861 Police Act. If implemented in the right spirit,
the proposed reforms will free the police machinery from the
clutches of the high and the mighty, including politicians. The
panel suggests scrapping the constable rank in the civil police and
its replacement by the Civil Police Officer (Grade II) who will be
recruited only after a three-year graduation course at the police
academies and training centres. The objective is to improve
efficiency and behaviour at the lower rung of the police system. To
give functional autonomy to the police, the report proposes a
bipartisan police board, selection of the DGPs on merit and a fixed
tenure to the DGPs and the SPs. It suggests earmarking dedicated
personnel for investigating crime and dealing with civilians to
encourage professionalism and enhance its credibility. It recommends
a system of evaluating performances and creation of accountability
commissions to investigate complaints against the police.
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Padmashri
Prof. (Dr) N.R.Madhava Menon
(Chairperson,
MILAT, Thiruvananthapuram,
Chairman,
Centre for Development Studies, Tvm;
Formerly
Director, National Judicial Academy, Bhopal
Founder
Director, National Law School of India University, Bangalore, and
Founder
V.C. of National University of Juridical Sciences, Calcutta)
Will
deliver lecture and will respond to questions from the floor
at
4.00
pm on 09.12.2006
at Sathabdi
Smaraka Hall, C.M.S. Higher Secondary School, Round West, Thrissur.
ALL
ARE CORDIALLY WELCOME
(Dr.Menon
was actively involved and was instrumental
in
the drafting of the new Police Act)
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