by Police - Bureau of Police Research and Development

The Indian Police Journal• Secondly, developing managerial and leadership talents withinthe organization;• Thirdly, pruning the corrupt and the dead wood at each stage atthe earliest; and• Fourthly, involving the community more and more in the policingarenas.An alarming situation in the forces emerges when the command andcontrol systems are diluted by outside agencies. One has to understandthe operational culture of the forces. Hence, stakeholders need todesist from the temptations to take over control. Too many masterswould bewilder the members of the force and generate disillusionmentin them. Hence, the sooner we realize this fact, the better it wouldbode for all of us. Piecemeal solutions by interested parties have tobe curtailed and effectively resisted. Police agencies have to considerthe perpetrators who have no limitations of jurisdiction. The globallyexportedterrorism and the psychological warfare, which have replacedconventional war options, are posing new challenges on the internalsecurity grid.Hence, security challenges now encompass a larger onus on thepolice set-up. Actual security as well as the perception of security,are both equally important. Neo-formats of community policing haveto be evolved to cater not only to the crime and order grid, but alsoto generate intelligence back-up to counter the asymmetric warfaremoves made by the adversaries. It is time for all the responsibleparochial interests and contribute to the police reforms.Civil Policegood policing systems, it would not be out of place to highlight theimportance of the civil police in seeking overt as well as covert support this context, the functional area of human relationship management,in which this agency is generally evaluated low should become theprime domain of the civil police, in order to optimise on communitycollaborations and thereby draw maximum social synergy for allJanuary - March, 201327