The Big Picture - Police Reforms: The Challenges

In a relief to policemen in Tamil Nadu, the Madras High Court on Wednesday said that the state government should contemplate giving policemen a day off in a week, like other government officials in order to spend time with their families. While hearing a plea seeking abolition of the orderly system in the police force, Justice N Kirubakaran observed, “Every government servant is entitled to a one-day holiday in a week so that they can spend time with their families, likewise why shouldn’t the police personnel get a weekly off.” Exhibiting concern for policemen, the judge noted that policemen were forced to work round-the-clock, sometimes without any holiday. And this was one of the reasons for deviant activities of police officials. The court further noted that a conducive atmosphere should be created for the policemen as it would help keep the morale high in the interest of the society. It was stated that policemen along with their family members face stress and mental agony and it is necessary to have at least a day’s holiday which would be helpful for them and their family members. On this edition of ‘The Big Picture’ we analyse the challenges of police reforms.
Guests - Prakash Singh, Former Director General of Police,
Balmiki Prasad Singh, Former Home Secretary, GoI,
Vipul Mudgal, Director, Common Cause,
Subhash Chakma, Director, Asian Center of Human Rights,
Anchor - Frank Rausan Pereira

[@ankushjindal2143]

By looking at Mr.Prakash Singh one can't say he is 82 years old...What a great personality...One of the finest civil servant of the country...Surely a motivation for joining police services.

[@rachjosh2265]

Surely Ankush!! man with impeccable credentials and highest level of integrity yet humble and down to earth...

[@anugulakumaraswamy4193]

Yes. One of great policemen .. I met Prakash Singh Sir this year.. i.e2017 sept ...

[@aryanroy76]

Prakash sir ....is whom I remember when I see commissioner gordon in Dark knight series.

[@moosaiqbal7651]

I agree totally with Mr. Mudgal ! thanks RSTV team !!!

[@nikhilashtikar8317]

Prakash Singh sir doing a great job.Thank you RSTV for inviting him.& Ty Frank sir.

[@anjalichoudhary1933]

Best points were presented by Prakash Singh and Vipul mudgal . Thank you sir

[@harrie5747]

This was needed from the very beginning. As a policeman I have to work throughout a week, sometimes a month without a weekly off. I desperately need to spend sometime with my family. Many orders and circulars have been passed in order to provide at least one off in a week or in a fortnight but all in vain.. Nothing worked on the floor. I really wanna thank Rajya sabha TV to raise this extremely important matter related with police. As a cop I am supposed to be polite while interacting with general public its literally not possible in such inhuman conditions for anyone but we still somehow manage our behaviour for the sake of Pledge we took to serve our country in every possible way. Jai hind

[@jestinmathew4503]

Good luck to you sir. I strongly support police reforms in the country

[@vikaspanchal8015]

Much much needed request pending, government must take initiatives to improve things.

[@sharath9239]

all these gentleman talked about problems of police but not on problems faced by people by police

[@snr5950]

My gratitude to respected prakash Singh, the relentless crusader for police reforms in India,for obtaining a little concession of weekly off to cops by the orders of Madras High Court which should be made applicable for whole of India. Also thanx to RSTV....

[@trackerone6011]

mr. bp singh sir,we know u r loaded with experience but do try to sync ur valuable viewpoints within a stipulated time as there is always shortage of time.keep enlightening us with ur experience...

[@poojaCjyoti]

Sir pls extend your duration of debate....so that every points should be clear

[@Desi_BoyHR16]

Great discussion.i would like to give my veiw here that our police department has to need more constable and officer ..only after we will able to provide them a condition in which our police department get a Little relife & can do with new potential.. with more energy

[@namangoyal2ct]

Bhagat Singh use to say I dont want a India in which "gore chale jaye or bhure aa jaye".. Looking at the politicians who treat policemen and civil servants as slaves I think he was right in his apprehensions.

[@rushikeshjogdand8753]

How bro?

[@namangoyal2ct]

Rushikesh Jogdand because in 70 years of independence we have not reformed our police services.. it was used by Britishers to control indian freedom fighters and their activities, they also use to treat them like slaves and now politicians behave in the same way.. Officers and policemen are transferred at their will and harassed.

[@namangoyal2ct]

puru rajput that's the courageous part I would say..I want to make a difference in lives of people of india and inspite of challenges many officers have made the difference..so there is hope..

[@namangoyal2ct]

puru rajput thanks brother..

[@musha8622]

"Azadi humara maksad nahi hai..sirf azadi humara maksad nahi hai ..hume chahiye ek aise samaj ki jahaan ameer, gareeb, kisan,b rahman,shudra,hindu,muslim, punjipati,majdoor sab ek ho , koi bhi uch neech nahi..nahi toh azadi toh milegi lekin goro ki jagah bhure baith jayenge aur silsila gulami ka hi chalega. Isliye aaj se humari party ka naam hoga HINDUSTAN SOCIALIST REPUBLIC PARTY "....BHAGAT SHAHEED

[@anaghasingh1929]

well taken by Prakash Sir!

[@SaravanaKumar0323]

Kindly compile all big picture videos in a playlist

[@abrarahelahi2797]

Saravana Kumar this is already there,search "big picture playlist" on utube

[@vishwajeetyadav2558]

Mr prakash singh superb

[@rushij1531]

The police force is far from efficient, it is defective in training and organization, it is inadequately supervised, it is generally regarded as corrupt and oppressive, and it has utterly failed to secure the confidence and cordial cooperation of the people.. In a landmark Judgement Given by SUpreme court in Prakash Singh vs Union of India case in Sept 2006, SC had issued several directives to State governments & Directed them to implement it.. some directives are- 1) Constitute Srate Security to ensure that state govt does not exercise unwarranted influence & pressure on Police personnel, Lay down broad guidelines & evaluate their performance independently 2) Appoint DGP through merit baded approach & give him security of tenure of at least 2 yrs...similar security of tenure should be given to SP, Commissioner etc.. 3)Separate the Investigation & Law and order functions of police..and Police should be relieved from additional duties like Traffic, Anti Enchroachment drive etc..There should be separate arrangement for that 4) Police Establishment Boards should be established to decide on matters of transfers, Postings, Promotion, Regualtion of duties etc.. 5)Set up Police Complaints authority to enquire into complaints into complaints made by people & make police department more accountable to people.. We need to modernise our police & make them ready to cater the varied & divergent needs of the time from maintaning Law & order to fight against terrorist attacks on cities, from General functions like keeping constant check on rising crimes to special roles of cracking down on Drug & substance abuse in society..This requires Political will along with bureaucratic efficiency to bring out our police system from the mindset of colonial era to people friendly more accountable modern Indian set up..Hopefully we will achieve it...

[@harrie5747]

Rishi J. Very well explained.

[@asthasingh9956]

Thanx alot for d info... Do u happen to know how many committes hav made recommendations??

[@Abhishek.Kathuria]

Rishi J Thanks for the effort

[@parthsna]

All this is only possible if we remove policing from the state list and bring it in the concurrent list.

[@taibasahaf7774]

Hats off to Prakash Sir

[@panyilansingpanyilansing759]

I request government of bharat country land good budget for police departments of police reform in our india .

[@shouryagadde]

@Rstv.. You provide us with one of the finest discussions of the beautiful topics in entire India.. we follow you religiously. Due to time restrictions, panelists are restricted in making valid points or may not make their point completely. So my suggestion is host a discussion until your questions or debate is done and then edit the video to your time limit with all the important points covered in the debate. For ex: we can edit lags in the speech of panelists, cut repeated sentences or word. It might look mechanical but will be more useful.. Just a suggestion.. :)

[@Selenophile1001]

Every time we demand accountability from them .Do we ever think about felicitating them for good work so that they feel motivated

[@deepjwalanag8882]

Answering Organically to any problem , giving due respect to Humanity... curx that -a happy policeman will be a good policeman . A question is a not a question in isolated form it has inter linkages as well in order to solve we must think in a holistic way . Thanks RSTV for building humane concept ..!

[@panyilansingpanyilansing759]

I request government of bharat bill pass for parliament police departments reform in bharat country .

[@canitinmahajan8754]

Plz suggest the shows on rstv for upsc with timing

[@raghavmc]

Police reforms are need of the hour.

[@premacharya3537]

BP Singh apne stories bolna band kijiye...

[@mohdatif6651]

prem acharya hahaha

[@alokkumar-wu1vp]

A certain time is very needed for the policemen to relax and explore other perspective of life.

[@CHANDANKUMAR-ci7cv]

Greatly disappointed with this discussion. Topic suggest that discussion will be on police reform. But what was discussed is only the working condition of police itself. Is this is the main reform needed to reform police?

[@panyilansingpanyilansing759]

Police departments is the most essential important role for india so the bill pass for parliament police reform

[@swagh4930]

Same is with armed personnel...they don't ask for privileges as they work as a motive to serve...same should be applicable to police also...pay should be increased of police personnel so that more youth will be interested to become police man.

[@indiafirst.90]

Good one,but we want paramilitary also under One Rank One Pension. All MP's And MLA's have only 5 years of period, they got lifetime pension,but our Soilder's and police Men's worked entire life but NO pension.(As a Humanity concern police men also need only 8 hours duty)

[@saurabhbhardwaj7951]

Mr Subhash Chakma rightly pointed out that all we hear about is freeing police of political control but in absence of that how will accountability of police will be ensured? That's a moot question. We need legislative reforms in this regard especially in light of spate of encounters in UP.

[@panyilansingpanyilansing759]

Police reform is most important for our country bharat nation..creation 150 crores populations vacancy police departments unemployment person for bharat country.

[@MKcampus]

Why you don't invite women in Ur show... I m seeing you show it will very helpfull but I think women's participation is more than Ur show is on hike ...

[@prateekgupta6377]

I totally agree!!!

[@koushikworldian9239]

Manjeet Kharb why don't you ask for transgenders??are they not in your eye??and next ask y not inviting south Indians? y this discrimination? and next ask y telugu ppl are not being invited? y this discrimination? ?so on &so forth you ask y u r not invited. .ok??

[@nishalall3510]

🌷🌷🌷🌷🙏

[@atiqulhoque435]

As B. P. singh said "policing task is given on contact " ,I am very critical about politicians intentions not only in this case but also about total reform like recruitment, tech augmentation etc. Again funds given to contract leaked, law and order get biased, sovereignty and dignity of individuals and society are harmed. Police for the people not for the culprit, autonomy and accountability to the people not to the politicians is a particular concern.

[@sreekumar3171]

BP Singh is in his own world talking irrelevant points..

[@priyankchouhan2771]

sree kumar i think he was trying to bring up points from the past...n that is one way to look at the police reforms

[@rajatguleria1359]

In himachal police constables are not given full salary.... even we do 24 hours service... there is 8 year tenure set to get new pay band...

[@panyilansingpanyilansing759]

Our country bharat peoples has populations increase day by day so police departments police reform is most important for our country bharat nation

[@sumitraizada7270]

I wish officers put forward demands for men under them aggressively. IPS officer can't be dismissed easily so they can take risk of angering their masters for good of their subordinates. Jai hind

[@raraj1993]

rules are so many but welfare is NIL in india

[@CHANDANKUMAR-ci7cv]

I thought discussion will be on real police reform, that is how can we separate police and politics. 2-and one more point that all these panelists are not addressing ,main problem is not housing problem main problem is the police itself(senior officer) . Even directly appointed sub inspector thinks him as Lord . More senior officer behavior towards constable is unexplainable. This issue is real issue for police reform. Disappointed by discussion

[@panyilansingpanyilansing759]

Present our bharat country rich peoples has 12 llb judicial system court but poor peoples has no llb judicial system court in this way eg nirbha case delhi rich peoples has given big money for individual llb .

[@thequranicwisdom744]

I like it when people speak Hindi in between. Because most of the time it's not appreciated.

[@CHANDANKUMAR-ci7cv]

Shubash chakma is correct,

[@panyilansingpanyilansing759]

I request government of bharat bill pass for parliament corruption bill ..corruption is the dangerous diseases for our country bharat and world government level country.

[@panyilansingpanyilansing759]

I request government of bharat country land creation vacancy for 50 crores police departments .

[@panyilansingpanyilansing759]

I request government of bharat country bill pass for parliament police departments is independent for all political leaders eg mla mp or minister or chief minister or prime ministers or president of bharat country only see for public opinion or public matter don't system of transfer system of India.

[@manralsir.221]

sir please debate in hindi language police reform

[@anichuraliprodhani8554]

Our police is very very weak ...they can catch only general people neither big criminals nor terrorist ...they always hv to take the help of CRPF ..

[@youthforchange591]

Its not that our police force is very weak.. Our police force is so politicized that they dont let them catch big fish..

[@panyilansingpanyilansing759]

I request government of bharat country bill pass for parliament populations control bill for birth 6 children for family every family of bharat country land.

[@panyilansingpanyilansing759]

I request government of bharat country land creation of 150 crores peoples for vacancy for our country bharat nation

[@manralsir.221]

sir please debate in hindi la

[@sameeranand2784]

discussions had nothing substantive. unnecessary long story telling

[@aspirant8996]

Mental stress: Train them in yoga, meditation, make them learn bhagawad geeta. They will be able to separate job and mental conditions. The game on the earth should be taken as the game of God. We can't do anything.

[@spatia367]

I'm good not everyone is spiritually inclined for such solutions to work. These can be extra curriculars

[@Saleembhai-shorts]

If they are spending more than 8 hours in their jobs ,they are also being paid for this...so i dont think that they are living a pathetic life...

[@abhinaygarg8792]

noor Jahan they are paid peanuts against the 10-11 hours they do the duty especially the lower staff and yeah they do live in slum like situations... Excesses more likely to happen if powers are given to stressed workforce

[@Saleembhai-shorts]

Abhinay Garg by the way they dont perform their duties properly... they are just using their power for their own benefit...

[@richatiwari3003]

You should have a police man or woman in your family to realize what they get and what they do.

[@rushikeshjogdand8753]

Is it humane to ask them to work for such long hours? Does paying more or less salary change that? Isn't it like diminishing marginal utility (task done vs salary paid)?

[@musha8622]

I'm sorry but NO sis.. they are not paid anything for their overtime . According to their service rules they are on duty 24/7 and the situation turns to the worse at times of elections , riots ,emergencies etc.. There is a need of urgent overhaul of the police service in india.

[@I_ambatman_]

Kuch nahi hona wala desh ka kuch bhi Karlo ya bak lo lol

[@sreekumar3171]

Bolne se bhi kuch nai hoga...

[@aditi896]

a j you should use your energy better.

[@I_ambatman_]

aditi srivastav I just spoke what's right buddy

[@rajiv6288]

a j tu chup reh na tu bhi to waste sperm h

[@sameeranand2784]

discussions had nothing substantive. unnecessary long story telling

[@sameeranand2784]

discussions had nothing substantive. unnecessary long story telling