Indian Police Force- 2

Hello readers

Hope you all are doing great.

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

-Barack Obama.

There are certain services in this world which are totally selfless and the people involved in these services think and see things differently.

We are today continuing our discussion on the Indian Police force which we had written about six months ago, so we are starting from where we stopped.

Who is going to give protection to the protectors? Recently a PSI was stabbed to death by thieves in broad day light in Bengaluru rural. It is not the first time that a police officer being killed by the criminals during an investigation in India. Is it not an issue that needs to be addressed immediately by the Government? It can be understood that such incidents can’t be stopped fully but why can’t aggressive preventive measures be taken?

Without the police it is just impossible to lead a secure life in the current day scenario. The police are just needed for everything. Right from giving security to the VVIPs to giving security to the common people, but when the protector himself is put in trouble, who will raise the voice against it.

We as citizen’s stage protests and strikes against many issues that trouble us, these issues can either be the simplest of issues or complex issues like agitation against petrol hike and so on. But we haven’t heard much about police going on strike, have we? When we goggled this, we could find a handful of incidents like the 1979 police union strike and there was another strike in 2005 similar to that.

Doctors', labour unions, transport unions which are all service based professions all get their demands when they sit for strikes, but the police who are the protectors of the citizens are the silent warriors who just pull themselves together and serve uncompromisingly.

We all want police protection for all the important events that happens in our towns, all the VIP’s need them for protection, but when some injustice happens to them there is not even a single soul who would come forward to raise his voice about the injustice, the grieving families are given a monetary compensation, it is shown as news item in the Indian media and there ends the matter, and most of the citizens are not even aware of the incident is not unfortunate?

Police are meant to protect the civil rights of citizens, but these men don’t think about their own rights, their lives and family, hats off to these great souls.

The Government of India observes 'Police martyrs day' each year, but we feel these heroes have to be remembered each day and every citizen has to be thankful to them for their invaluable service and the ideal way to thank them is to support them when it is most needed, the youth have to encouraged to become a part of this force.

Instead of political interference in police operations there has to be political support is needed.

We conclude this blog by leaving this discussion open for our readers to comment on how best can the police be empowered.

Thanks for your time

Living with hope

Tejus R.S and Harish Murthy.