Policing In India: Some Unpleasant Essays

This book is a collection of fourteen lengthy well researched essays and an equal number of short journalistic pieces on the type of police organisation that exists today and the quality of policing that is being done in the country. The essays are on different topics but the basic theme running through them is that the police in the country function less to serve the rule of law and more to secure the interests of the dominant group or regime in power. The initiatives to reform the police have failed because those who control the system lack the will to reform it. They have abused it and are responsible for the large number of ills that now threaten to destroy the system. The existing system is unacceptable. It has resulted in subverting the rule of law and in obstructing the growth of a healthy and professional system of policing. It must change. The need for police reform is now too important to be neglected and too urgent to be delayed. It is to promote debate on this idea that has guided the publication of this book of essays on the subject of policing in India.