Police Reforms

States asked to raise women's representation in police force to 33%: Govt

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 Haryana's Hansi develop mobile app to track criminals

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

VP Naidu calls for renewed thrust in implementing reforms in police

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

Cyber-ready? India's 2.1 mn police personnel had 13,000 laptops in 2019

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

Extortion, corruption are results of structural deficiencies: Neeraj Kumar

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

Democrats reintroduce police reform bill named in honour of George Floyd

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

14 years on, no state/UT has fully implemented SC-mandated police reforms

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

Donald Trump to sign executive orders for US police reforms on Tuesday

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

Trump to resume election rallies, said to be working on police reforms

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

Letter to BS: Despite heavy workload, police perform duties sans complaints

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

Four pillars of Indian justice system miss one major force- Women

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

Rape as a tamasha

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

Police transfers jump in election years; Haryana, UP lead the way: Report

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

Nobody listens to our orders, SC replies to PIL seeking police reforms

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