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Petition by Satyamev Jayate
To: State Home Ministers, Chief Ministers
Region: India
Background:
Even today, in 21st century India, the system of policing across the country is
still by and large within the framework of the 1861 Police Act introduced
during the British Raj. Various attempts to introduce police reforms, necessary
to protect the force from day to day political interference, have been
circumvented through various means. The police finds itself in the grip of the
ruling political parties who make decisions on high-level appointments and
transfers, thus, at times, interfering with crime investigation and public
order functions of the police. Today, the people's faith in the police is
diminishing and the force is struggling to cope with rising crime rates and
threats to internal security.
In the year 2006, the
Supreme Court of India passed directives aimed at removing the stranglehold of
the ruling political dispensation over the police and to improve its efficiency
and accountability. Among some of the main directives was the setting up of
state security commissions to ensure state governments don’t exert undue
pressure on the police; fixed tenure for police officers; transparent selection
of state police chiefs; separation of investigation from law and order; and the
establishment of a Police Complaints Authority to look into complaints against
the police. Law and order being a state subject, each state was expected to
establish a new Police Act to put these directives in motion. Till date, these
orders have either not been implemented or have been carried out in a piecemeal
fashion, defeating the very purpose and spirit of the Supreme Court judgement.
Petition: We urge and request
that the Supreme Court’s directives on police reforms be implemented by every
state government in the country. As per the apex court’s orders, every state
must establish new Police Acts to ensure that these reforms are long term. The
court’s orders are an important step to ensure that long overdue reforms are
brought into force.
This petition will be sent
to the Chief Ministers and Home Ministers of every state of India. Your
signature will help push for this critical reform. Source Satyamev Jayate
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