Chief Minister’s latest directions given to the police officials of Uttar Pradesh is nothing,but a old wine in a new bottle.Actually,the whole structure of police organization needs an urgent change .Creation of three new zones would not bring any difference,indeed it is an attempt of another failure of new experiment.Chief Minister had performed various experiments in the past,with an aim of bringing the reforms in police administration,but not only all the experiments got failed,they made the condition worse than earlier.Concept of “Thana Diwas” got failed,and it caused the broadening of gap of trust deficit between the police and people.Elimination of the post of IG(Zone) and replacement of SSP/SP in 8 Mahanagars with an Officer of the Rank of DIG were totally failed and it became a cause for the rising crime graph in the state.Former DGP,Vikram Singh,too had reported the government to change this system,but government had simply ignored his recommendation.Then,Chief Minister got a new idea in her mind,and she took a decision to separate the post of ADG(Law and Order),and created two posts i.e ADG(Law and Order) for East Uttar Pradesh and ADG(Law and Order) for West Uttar Pradesh,but that concept too got failed.However,a senior officer,whose work has been divided and who is very close to the government and enjoys political patronage,was not happy with this arrangement,so the decision was cancelled after sometime.Afterthat,”Uttar Pradesh Police NCR Zone”,has been created with an aim of achieving control on rising graph of crime in Western Uttar Pradesh,but the result was zero.So,except failure,nothing came out of these experiments.I am not able to understand that why the government is not ready to accept that without bringing reforms in the police administration,nothing can be achieved on law and order front? Government is carrying out these experiments with same and old chemical,and want a new product,which is not possible.
Yesterday,Chief Minister has said that the policemen who will be involved in unlawful activities,rape or crime against women or in police-criminal nexus,they will be dismissed from their job.This is not the first time,Chief Minister has given this kind of warning,but the real situation is very well known to us that only lower rank police officials face departmental and disciplinary action and the DPC,DIG,IGP,ADGP are not answerable to the higher authorities.Chief Minister has said that the action will be taken against SHO in the case of crime against woman.She have been giving this kind of warning to the SHOs since the day she has taken the charge of Chief Minister of this State,but no change has been made in the working style of SHOs and police station has become the core of all the criminal activities in the state.She said that,policemen will be deployed at those places, which are critical from the point of view of women’s security. We know that her government has been trying to prove it as the well-wisher of women since the day,when it came to power in Uttar Pradesh and Chief Minister knows that crime against woman could be happened at any place,despite of knowing that fact her government is issuing these kind of unsensible directions to the police force.To curb this menace,a joint effort is needed by SHO,CO,ASP and DPC,by making regular patrolling and pointing criminal elements and eve teasers in the area on regular basis.But,there is no mechanism to know that ,how many days SHO does patrol his area? Automatic Location System can be fitted in police jeep of every police station to know the exact location of police vehicle,but for this government has to spend money and on this front,the government is ready to make an excuse of budget deficit.Special Drive will be conducted across the state from July 1,to curb crime against women.I think,government would have a magic wand,that’s why it made this kind of decision.Eve teasers will be pointed out in this special drive to curb crime against women.Does this decision make any sense? Crimes against women are not committed on a monthly or seasonal basis,so why this government is making these kind of decisions,which look like sweet grapes,but in real sense they are sour.
In an overall perspective, government will have to understand that police administration in Uttar Pradesh is directionless,police officials have no vision and strategy to implement these experiments on the ground,they do not want to change their way of working,they do not want to change their attitude and behaviour,they are willing to go to any length for causing harm to the respect and prestige of police uniform,instead of serving a common man,they are serving their political masters,they became shameless and insensitive,they want to come in limelight for wrong reasons,so how could the government carry experiments after experiments in this kind of situation? Either, the government is not understanding the core problem of police administration which perhaps looks not true or the government is not serious for tackling criminal incidents and deteriorating law and order situation in the state and only trying to make the people fool by organizing these kind of meetings.This government has lost it’s credibility for making complete politicization of police and using police force as an instrument of political war.Government has failed to crackdown the nexus between police and mafia and due to increasing carelessness,unaccountability,insentivity,of the police administration,now it becomes very difficult to handle the malpractices in police administration.Government need to make structural changes in the police organization.Transfers in police department must be done on a time frame manner and these transfers must be completely independent of political interference.Now,the time has come to adopt modern technology for making strict supervision on police officials and make them accountable to people,because in democracy,the biggest power is that of the people.Government should not treat police constables and lower rank police officials as servants of political office.At this point of time,DGP should also take some measures,DGP should break his silence and need to be communicative with people.
