Abingdonboy
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I'm not sure what exactly needs to be done but it is clear something needs to be done, in fact a LOT needs to be done. Whilst the rest of India (military, CAPFs, infra sector, auto industry, aviation, medicine, IT etc etc) are intent on moving forward and going for the cutting edge the police in India seem perfectly happy to sit in the 1910s/20s and brag about the smallest of achievements that other police forces brought in decades ago!What can be done to change it? I think that it's a slow process and it will atleast take a decade to change anything in the police sphere even if a lot is done now. I don't think this decadal timeline is exaggeration,infact this is a very optimistic timeline because this is the reality on ground.
It really is not an exaggeration to say that the average Indian police officer on the street is amongst the worst trained and equipped police officers in the world- including Africa.
Ever now and then you'll hear someone in authority talking about modernising the police but this never translates onto the ground. Yes many police forces have raised adequately equipped/trained specialist CT units but this is utterly irrelevant, they aren't the issue, it is the state of the average beat officer that is most disturbing in India and the utter lack of a modern policing culture.
It is beyond embarrassing:
+ a decade to turn this around is MASSIVELY optimistic, right now the IPS is about 90 years behind the rest of the world- if not more.