Essentially a sequel to the author's earlier work, Defenders of the Establishment: Ruler-supportive Police Forces of South Asia, a history of the Indian police from ancient times to 1947, this book deals with police history, covering some 55 years since Indian independence. Writing about contemporary institutions and events is a risky proposition and more so in this country as the very nature of its polity is forever in a state of flux, not always for the better.
Law enforcement and politics are essential, irrevocable and interdependent features of state power and are prone to feed on each other for sustenance. However, unwarranted political manipulation of state institutions, especially the police and the magistracy, a marked feature of Indian law enforcement mechanisms in recent times, is bound to impair democratic freedoms and human rights of the people. Also, all social and political institutions are the product of a nation's historical and philosophical experience through the ages. Indian police is no exception. In some ways, this is like saying that every society gets the police it deserves. Does it follow, therefore, that the Indian people are doomed to live for ever with a callous, overbearing, communalized, often corrupt and unaccountable police force? Not really. Only if the Indian state were to set in motion a calibrated process of substantial reforms in the outdated system of law enforcement, rooted in the mid-nineteerth century, most forms of distortions in police functioning would vanish.
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Kirpal Dhillon has held some very important appoin-t-ments, among them Joint Director in the Central Bureau of Investigation and Director General of Police, Panjab and Madhya Pradesh, which enabled him to gain deep insights into police problems and strategies. He also served as the Vice-Chancellor of Bhopal University after retirement from the IPS, and was later elected a fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. His earlier work on Indian police history, Defenders of the Establishment: Ruler-supportive Police Forces of South Asia was very well received. Widely travelled and a prolific writer?on?contemporary?themes,?he?passed?away?in?the?year?2018.
Foreword 11
Preface 15
1 Setting the Agenda: Postulates, Definitions, Correlations 21
The Police Role 22
Police and Society 24
Police and the State 26
Two Types of Police 29
Police and the Indian Subcontinent 31
Defenders of the Establishment 34
Indian Police Act 1861 40
Police and the Media 45
2 Coping with Independence 51
Colonial Hangover 52
Adjusting to the New Order 54
Political Expediency and Law enforcement 57
All India Services - The Indian Police Service 60
IAS and IPS - An Uneasy Relationship 67
Enfeeblement of the Civil Service 69
Politicization 72
Post-Independence Strains 78
Special Commitments 81
Protecting Democratic Process 85
Police and Criminal Justice 86
3 The Political Environment 91
An Aberrant Democracy 92
Corruption High Places 99
Ministerial Perks 104
The New Mughals 107
Corruption and Criminality 114
Criminalization of Politics 117
4 State Police I 130
Growing Numbers, Swelling Budgets 130
Recruitment Policies 136
Special Branches 139
VIP Security 143
Criminal Investigation Department 147
Complaints Against Police 151
Brutality and Custodial Violence 153
Corruption and Criminality 157
Police and Weaker Sections 163
Gang Dacoity - Encounters and Surrenders 168
5 State Police II 185
Caste Militias 185
Expanding Span of Criminality 191
Frequent Agitations and Disorder 200
White-Collar Crime 203
Cyber Crime 206
6 State Police III209
Judicial Activism and Delays 209
Military Aid to Civil Authorities 220
Mrs. Gandhi's Emergency 226
Stray Experiments in Seeking Community Support 237
7 Central Police Organization I 249
Assam Rifles 253
Central Reserve Police Force 255
Border Security Force 262
Railway Protection Force 267
Indo-Tibetan Border Police 269
Central Industrial Security Force 272
National Security Guards 273
Bureau of Civil Aviation Security 277
8 Central Police Organization II
National Security and Intelligence 286
Intelligence and Governance 293
Intelligence Bureau 299
Special Protection Group 314
Central Bureau Investigation 317
9 Training and Development 327
Training Process and Design 330
UNDP Project on Police Design 338
Current Training Scenario: An Evaluation 341
Committee on Police Training 349
Bureau of Police Research and Development 352
National Police Academy 355
State Police Training Institutions 369
Modernization 372
10 Sectarian Conflicts 376
Hindu-Muslim Divide 377
Hindu view of Muslims 379
Muslim view of Muslims 380
Hindu view of Hindus 381
Muslim view of Hindus 381
Communal Riots 383
Sectarian Divides and Terrorism 391
Communal Violence and Civil Society 394
More on Hindu-Muslim Riots 397
Ayodhya 1992 - Mumbai 1992-3 402
Coimbatore - 1997-8 413
Gujarat Carnage 415
Targeting Christians 419
Rewriting History 421
11 Socio-political Violence 427
An Unjust Social Order 428
Left Extremism (Naxalism) 433
Separatist Violence 440
The North-East 445
Assam 446
Nagaland 449
Mizoram and Tripura 452
Meitei Extremism (Manipur) 454
The North-West 455
Terrorism and Insurgency 456
An Alternative Approach 462
12 Panjab: 1983-92: Destabilization of a Mainstream State 466
The Logic of Militancy 467
The Rise of Bhindranwale and Operation Blue Star 473
Post-Bhindranwale Phase 478
Sikh Killings of 1984 482
Rajiv-Longowal Accord and the Assassination of Longowal 483
Two Phases of Militancy 487
Operations Black Thunder 499
The Beginning of the End 506
Post-Militancy Trends 512
13 Partition's Unfinished Agenda: The Kashmir Imbroglio 516
A Brief Retrospect 518
Spread of Militancy 523
Intensification of Secessionism 532
The Pakistan Connection 536
The Autonomy Issue 540
Kashmiri Islamic Tradition Under Stress 548
Human Rights Issues 550
Where Do We Go from Here 554
Elections 2002 557
14 Reforming the Police 562
A Compromised Police 562
Politics and Internal Security 564
The Benchmarks 565
Police and Criminal Justice 568
National Police Commission 1978-81 574
Principal Recommendations 578
Reform Process 582
Civilian Oversight Over the Police 585
Police Unrest 590
How South Africa Reformed its Police 593
Summing Up 596
Bibliography 601
Index 605
