INDIAN POLICE AND ETHICS-
In News: Former President Ram Nath Kovind gave the message that an 'ideal police system' indicates that the job of a police officer is full of responsibility and accountability.
ISSUES WITH ETHICAL POLICING✓ Corruption
✓ Custodial death
✓ Politicization of the police
✓ Using harmful methods like coercion and deception.
✓ Lack of a proper tenure policy for the posting of officers
SUGGESTIONS✓ Depoliticise the Police
✓ Protecting Human Rights
✓ Police Practice must Comply with Ethical Principles
✓ The National Human Rights Commission (1998)
-> The police must be “low in authority and high in accountability.” the protection of human rights is a core police function.
✓ Community Policing
-> Programme ‘Ummeed’ (Delhi)
-> Friends of Police (Tamil Nadu)
-> Mohalla Committees (Maharashtra)
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