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There is a need of drastic overhaul of police organization which include recruitment policies, training, retirement etc. Government should stop recruitment of Indian Police Service (IPS) as a part of common civil services exam. Mostly our IPS officers are very talented folks. They are in IPS only because for some reason they could not get into IAS or IFS. Working in police had not been a priority but a sheer compulsion. Many such candidates leave even during the basic training for good. What kind of policing can one expect from these bureaucratic mindsets? I will suggest a drastic change by removing policing from civil system. Young people with an aptitude and mind for policing should be chosen when they are in their under graduate final years. It should be on the line of placement followed by professional programs of education. Such chosen people need to be physically and arm trained with army attachment program. Subsequently, a training in criminal procedures and police act can be provided to them.
We need devoted police officers from the lowest constable to the highest ranks. Present police force is heavily dependent on the political administration. And, they are often used/abused by them for personal gains. We should find out a modus operandi to see how this change can be incorporated in our police act.

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Now, the all important question is about what should the governments in the provinces do? Here are some suggestions to be implemented at state level because policing has been part of our concurrent list of the constitution.

1. Remove all security measures provided for the personal security of politicians who are found to have been involved in mob or gangs related crimes. Their gangs may be able to secure these crime-tainted assets. It will release a good number of police force.
2. Create special honorary constables in every nook and corner under strict vigilance of the nearby police station. These people may be paid some basic honorarium and chosen based upon their antecedents and criminal records. I will suggest that such positions should be given to apolitical people of the area.
3. Create a volunteer force of young 'crime stoppers' on the line of Canada. These people will inform to a toll free number in every sub division about any crime likely to be committed or the presence of an unknown, stranger or suspicious looking person in the locality. These volunteers will never co and face or interfere in the crime but work from distance. It will be a volunteer work useful for getting jobs and admissions in higher education.
4. Personal vehicles allotted to the people below the DG ranks MUST be withdrawn. These vehicles must go to police stations equipped with needed instruments to be used as patrol cars. Every police officer must be provided with a loan to buy a vehicle for personal use, if desired. These officers normally do not get involved in routine policing hence, police marked cars are wastage of limited resources, if used by them.
5. This method can be applied to rest of the civilian employees to reduce the establishment cost and mileage allowance can be provided instead for business travel if needed.
6.. States must provide patrol cars equipped with emergency call handling capacity to all the police stations. These petrol cars may be centrally controlled using tracking system and two armed constables in each. One car may be allotted for every segment of 5000 population. This process may make these emergency cars available within minutes of the call received for help.
7. Police force needs retooling now. We need strongly built constables regularly kept physically fit and equipped with AK series guns and protection gears. There should not be difference in commando and civil police in look and strength of fire power.

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