The reputation of Uttar Pradesh Police lies in tatters.Increasing the cadre strength can’t be a sole aspect of refurbishing the image of police.Uttar Pradesh Police has become a political arm of government to achieve the criminal ends by using unfair means.

Police Engineering Core

Why don’t the state governments constitute ,”Police Engineering Core” as a special unit for disaster response,apart from PAC.It will serve two purposes of the government: first,this special unit will reach the spot on time after any disaster and second,it would help bridge the gap between police and people.

Principle of Quick Response Team(QRT) has too many flaws.

In Uttar Pradesh Police,a lot of experiments have been done in the last four years and all were failed,whether it was Thana Diwas,Replacement of SSP/SPs with the DIGs in 8 mahanagars,creation of Uttar Pradesh Police NCR Zone and so forth.In Uttar Pradesh,every district police have QRTs,for delievering quick response to any criminal incident or any other mishappening.But,in Uttar Pradesh,the decision of establishing Quick Response Team was taken without any plan or strategy.Definition of QRT,reveals that,when any criminal incident takes place at any place in district,then a quick response will be made by a special team of district police,but in Uttar Pradesh,response of QRT is muted.Policemen of QRTs have not been given special training to make quick response according to the need of the hour,they are engaged in daily work of police station due to which they get tired and at the time of duty,they take rest under the shadow of the tree or in QRT jeep,they are not equipped with proper tools and instruments to make quick response.I give you an example;two years earlier,when marriage season was going on,a marriage party was organized in a guest house located opposite to my home. Suddenly,two groups clashed with each other.When I saw the scene,then I suddenly made a call to Control Room and i had informed the policeman about the situation.I had called the Control Room at 10:10 pm and QRT of police came at 10:50 pm and unfortunately,till that time,a compromise was made between those groups.So,I have witnessed the result of mismanagement,because the area in which I live comes under a police station which is located far from my house.Some months ago,Lucknow Police included new QRT gypsy,which is looking like a QRT of modern police force,but the policemen who are responsible for making quick response are the same.They are trained to respond in the same way as they did in other incidents.I am sad,that state government is not taking any principle of police management seriously.With the changing environment of security scenario in the district,QRTs must be equipped with latest and modern technological equipments like GPS,policemen should be given special training for making quick response.Government should provide them better incentives,take care of their health,provide them modern weapons,increase the number of policemen and QRTs,give them proper training regarding the management of response time in an appropriate way, and the most important thing,treat them as the members of QRT.Quick Response Teams are the backbone of Uttar Pradesh Police and I would urge the state government to not make them paralysed.State Government should not make QRT only as a symbol of better policing.

Our expectations from a policeman has become our cynicism.

We expect from a policeman to save ours life,but we are not ready to launch dialogue with him.We expect from a policeman to behave in a humane way,but we are not ready to understand the way in which they are behaved by high-ranking police officials.We generally make allegations on constable,and lower rank police officials,because they are entrusted with the job of filing an FIR,but we do not know the reality in which high-ranking officials behave with these policemen.We read in the newspaper that a SHO of that police station got failed in crime test conducted by SSP/SP of a district,but have we ever thought that what would be the result of crime test given by SSP/SP of a district? Our police organization has become a very complex structure,which is not able to resolve it’s internal issues,and government is promising to deliver justice on time.Uttar Pradesh Government should understand the pathetic condition of police in the state and take some intelligent and bold steps.Serious statements can never be a substitute for action.

Uttar Pradesh Government needs to set up a “Police Infrastructure Fund”,for the overall development of police infrastructure in the state.

Beat Constable acts like a key to unlock all the doors containing intelligence information,but it is shameful,that the state government has made him sick and weakest instrument of state policing.

Uttar Pradesh Police stands at a very interesting crossroads.On the one hand,crime graph has been elevated to a new height, including the largest number of fake encounters done by any police force in India,on the other,few policemen are showing their honesty and friendly behaviour,which is not displayed in media and public domain at large.At this juncture,state government need to set up an,"Institute of Police Ethics and Management."

What can we expect from Uttar Pradesh Police?

It seems like,saving criminals has become the passion of Uttar Pradesh Police and afterthat an IPS Officer has said that,”People should treat policeman as a member of their family.”Other IPS Officers say that,people should trust policemen,gap between police and people should be filled in a good sense.I would like to ask only one question,Is this a cricket test match going on,where we are used to heard one statement again and again,and not even a single run has been scored so far?

By bringing Police Reforms,government should make it a symbol of nation’s glory,instead of making police force,a chapter which comes in the book of grammar of dictatorship.

Police Stations are the core component of the whole structure of police organization

Today,we know that India is engaged in building World Class Infrastructure,Green Offices,World Class Roads for Sustainable Development because these are the priorities of our government,but had our government ever focused on building the world class or ideal police stations? Police Station is a life support system of police organization and without focusing on the quality and nature of services ,our police stations are delivering,government can not control crime in an effective manner,government can’t succeed in building trustworthy relationship between police and people without reforming working process of police stations and most importantly,the whole system of police organization will be collapsed with the negligence of giving importance to police stations and the same is happening in Uttar Pradesh.Police Station is working as a private office of the political interference in Uttar Pradesh.If police stations are being sold in Uttar Pradesh,then making a deal for the life of an innocent person is not a surprise for anybody.Government can’t make a policeman as a statue wearing police uniform without having ethics and values ,which he was taught during the time of training.There is an urgent need to bring reforms in the whole concept,on which the theory of the establishment of police station was made.Police station should not become a place of fear and danger,and for that government has to teach a moral lesson to every policeman,about how to behave with a person,who come to register an FIR.On the one hand,directions were issued to certain district police departments to not register cases on all complaints and on the other hand,in Law and Order review meeting,which is covered by the media,Chief Minister gives directions to police officials to register every complaint.

                                                                                       Environment of police station should be friendly and cooperating and for that government should fulfill the basic needs of police station,because working in an environment where your basic requirements are not fulfilled is working on a place with having a very less amount of oxygen in the air.Police stations should be equipped with best technology and modern weapons,so that policeman should be confident of delivering a kind of result,which a common man do expect from him.How long will government continue to make a joke by providing .303 rifle to a policeman,who in the current scenario is expecting to fight with hard core criminals and terrorists?We have heard that the police stations would be provided solar power to meet their energy requirements,but here the question arises,if the government is not providing them the sufficient stationery material,which is used by them on daily basis,then how could government provide them solar power?”Thana Diwas” and “Janta Darbar” are just the concepts laid down on the paper,but the elected government and police administration failed in implementing this ambitious plan on the ground and the major cause of the failure is the lack of accountability,commitment and responsibility in Senior Police Officers and government.If some policemen do good work,then they are like the drops of water in desert.A decision has been taken recently by Uttar Pradesh Government,that from constable to inspector,each police personnel will be provided a permanent number,by which he is identified and it would not be change during the time of service.It is a good decision,but alongwith that decision,government should also connect each police station with a web network,so that the process of passing and receiving information at the time of investigation becomes easy.Today,the state intelligence agencies are paralysed with the kind of technology ,equipments and kind of expertise which they have.Police stations play a crucial role in intelligence gathering and a very important and core element of that activity is Beat Policing,but beat policing has become the weakest factor of police organization.Common man plays a key role in intelligence gathering,but common man will only help,when he is given due respect and due response at the police station.

                                                                           Working hours of policeman is not fixed.The police here is perhaps the only department where a station officer is on 24-hour duty and usually 365 days a year.How can you expect them to be compassionate,respectful,attentive and thoroughly professional in such situation? And after that,their accountability is also not fixed,and the CM’s announcement that no police officer,even at the police station level,will be transferred until absolutely necessary built a shield around the juniors and robbed the seniors of the power to punish when necessary.So,the government’s policy is responsible for making police station - dumb,deaf and mute spectator in most of the incidents.Police stations are those pillars on which the police organization stand,but every criminal incident,which happens in police station,whether rape of a minor girl,death by the torture of police,unfriendly behaviour with senior citizens and women,make a new crack in the pillar.Will that time come,when we feel the same for the policeman as we do for the army jawan? I think that time will never come if the government doesn’t bring police reforms.