SMART Policing - unveiled in DGP's conference 2014 in Guwahati - 4 categories- sensitivity and responsiveness; properly equipped including forensics; technology empowering police to speed up the investigation and reaching police services to the common people; training is an enabler. Issues: Police force under the grip of the traditional British raj mindset. Police Act of 1861. Lack of training Lack of political and police relations. Unequipped police stations. Expenditure on police reforms is not on priority. On 1st January 2017: Police population ration in India was 151 per lakh against the sanctioned ratio of 193. UN recommends 222 policemen per lakh of population. The number of women personnel: less than 10% of total strength. The crime rate between 2005-18 increased by 28% but the conviction rate in IPC crimes in 2015 was only 47%. 30% vacancies in the police forces. 7-8% in central police forces. Trust is low. Budget: 3.5-4%. Journey: National Police Commission Soli Sorabjee- Model Police Act Prakash Singh case. - Sharing of intelligence in real-time. - Guarantee minimum tenure for senior police officers. - Rs 8000 crore for reforms. - Drone technology, Robotics, Big data analysis, Artificial Intelligence - Rethinking, constant upgradation, and innovation and state of the art technology. - Act smart and deliver smart.
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This is desperately needed. Policing has to turn 180 degrees. People today are more scared of police than criminals because of lack of soft skills and accepted norms of taking bribe for performing even the regular duties expected from police. Other reforms will first have to kick in for smart policing to happen like increasing the number of police personnel and decreasing the work load.
Four Major Blocks- 1-Sensitivity and response of the police to the citizen 2-Being equipped 3-Technology in the larger sense - precision and speed, technology as a tactical advantage to police 4-Training: A Enabler *Nature of crime has changed, technology will change before the reforms *police are in the group of traditional British Raj Mindset (Lack of training, political interference ) *Police stations should be upgraded to cater with the modern nature of crime *Expenditure on police don't get priority *Intra state nature of crime and lack of communication between state polices. *Police:Population ration is poor *Smarting doesn't mean new uniform *vacancies needs to be filled up *Constant upgrade of technology *DIMENSIONS OF CRIME :CYBER TECHNOLOGY *ROLE OF ROBOTICS AND BIG DATA ANALYSIS *REAL-TIME DATA AND INFO SHARING TO TACKLE cross border *People friendly police is the need of the hour *Police needs to be generation ahead of criminals *Smart means delivery of smart *National Police commission *Padmanavi committee *Soli Sorabjee Committee *Prakash Singh Case *Surveys show less trust in Police -Less Spending by states on police forces (3-4%) *UN recommends *Low conviction rate in IPC cases (47%), Law commission points out that this is because of poor investigations. *State utilize 14% of the budget on reforms *Draft Model Act to avoid pol interference *SC guidelines on Police reforms *All stakeholders gotta made the efforts. *Two components -Internal ones - that are within the police machinery itself - right training, -External ones - of interference by the political system Police should have freedom and liberty. *Political parties get benefited from a puppet police force and that is one reason that there is no pol consensus on reforms *Focus of police have shifted from poor people to the rich elite class *Police and culture suffer most by the financial crunch of states. *Common man should feel confident while interacting with a policeman *Most of the funding of police spend money on salaries rather than modernization *Make police more sensitive *We must give credit to Police and especially lower-level personnel that they work hard and ensure democracy with minimum resources
(from baliyans website) Context: Vice President of India has stressed on the need to make policing and police station people-centric and receptive. He suggested tapping the IT potential in investigation and safety and security management and emphasised on the need to address the shortage of manpower, improving transport and communication facilities and other aspects of police reforms as suggested by the Supreme Court. Background The police organization in India in its present form is based essentially on thePolice Act of 1861, which was legislated “to re-organize the police and to make it a more efficient instrument for the prevention and detection of crime”. The colonial mindset of the police, the distrust people had for the police in British India has continued to date. Both pre and post-independence, a number of committees and commissions have been appointed and have deliberated upon various aspects of streamlining the effectiveness of police governance in the country. Summary of the Debate What is Smart Policing? The concept was introduced by the Prime Minister during the 49th annual conference of Directors-General and Inspectors-General of Police at Guwahati in 2014. The term SMART stands for S-Sensitive and Strict; M-Modern with mobility; A- Alert and Accountable; R- Reliable and Responsive; T- Trained and Techno-savvy. Sensitivity, fully equipped/equipments, Technology and Training are main pillars of smart policing. The sensitivity and responsivenessof the police to the people is the main area where we need to work. Highly upgraded equipment and other technologies are needed because the pattern of crimes has been changed. Training of police personnel to achieve modern-day targets is necessary. What is the current situation of the police system in India? Under the Constitution, police is a subject governed by states. Therefore, each of the 29 states has their own police forces. The centre is also allowed to maintain its own police forces to assist the states with ensuring law and order. Therefore, it maintains seven central police forces and some other police organisations for specialised tasks such as intelligence gathering, investigation, research and record-keeping, and training. Police stations are ill-equipped and the police are still under the grip of the traditional British Raj mindset in regards to the professional abilities and things are not changing because of many reasons like lack of training and lack of political will. What are some challenges and problems related to the Police system in India? Expenditure on police accounts for about 3% of the central and state government budgets. State police forces had 24% vacancies (about 5.5 lakh vacancies) in January 2016. Hence, while the sanctioned police strength was 181 police per lakh persons in 2016, the actual strength was 137 police. Note that the United Nations recommended standard is 222 police per lakh persons. Crime per lakh population has increased by 28% over the last decade (2005-2015). However, convictions have been low. In 2015, convictions were secured in 47% of the cases registered under the Indian Penal Code, 1860. The Law Commission has observed that one of the reasons behind this is the poor quality of investigations. CAG audits have found shortages in weaponry with state police forces. For example, Rajasthan and West Bengal had shortages of 75% and 71% respectively in required weaponry with the state police. The Bureau of Police Research and Development has also noted a 30.5% deficiency in stock of required vehicles (2, 35,339 vehicles) with the state forces. Police have the power to investigate crimes, enforce laws and maintain law and order in a state. To ensure that such power is only used for legitimate purposes, various countries have adopted safeguards such as making police accountable to the political executive and creating independent oversight authorities. In India, the political executive (i.e., ministers) has the power of superintendence and control over the police forces to ensure their accountability. The Second Administrative Reforms Commission has noted that this power has been misused, and ministers have used police forces for personal and political reasons. What has been done so far for police reforms? The problem with the police reforms and the problems for strengthening a police force have been discussed on a number of occasions. The Government of India appointed a National Police Commission in 1977and it submitted eight detailed reports between 1979 and 1981 which contained comprehensive recommendations covering the entire gamut of police working. Apart from the National Police Commission, several other bodies were constituted from time to time to go into the question of police reforms. These were: Gore Committee on Police Training (1971-73) Ribeiro Committee on Police Reforms (1998) Padmanabhaiah Committee on Police Reforms (2000) Group of Ministers on National Security (2000-01) Malimath Committee on Reforms of Criminal Justice System (2001-3) Supreme Court Directives on Prakash Singh vs Union of India (2006) Second Administrative Reform Commission recommendation on Police Reform In a landmark judgment in 2006, the Supreme Court ordered the setting up of three institutions at the state level with a view to insulating the police from extraneous influences, giving it functional autonomy and ensuring its accountability. What are the possible solutions? On one hand, there is unemployment and on other hands there is an anachronism that we have 30 percent of vacancies. These vacancies should be filled up. Police need high graded technology for communication. It has to be the state of the art. Artificial intelligence, Big data analytics, robotics and real-time sharing of intelligence is the need of the hour. A survey of 15000 respondents indicated that less than 25 percent of them trusted the police. Police need to be people-friendly. Police’ failure in developing a people-friendly image is its inability to perform one of its core functions i.e. register crimes. There is a need for some drastic changes to this. The proper amount of money and resources should be allotted to police departments. Political will is very important. States should at least implement the recommendations of the Supreme Court to full extent. External interference is a major hurdle in the current scenario for the police system. It should be minimised through proper policies and hardcore will. Way forward Smart policing is not just about putting up smart uniform, it is about behave smart, act smart and deliver smart. All the stakeholders will need to go ahead together and take a grip of the situation to try and find solutions to all the problems regarding the police system and smart policing. Police will have to be made more sensitive to the citizens and also their problems need to be addressed by the leaders in the police force as well as the political leadership.
The police reform in its first step needs an image make over. Whatever statistics we have about crime rate by the NCRB merely depends upon the 5% FIRs that gets recorded. Nearly 95% of the crimes are not recorded at the very first place. Policing must be people centric and an cordial relationship between public and police is a prerequisite to any form of Smart policing.
Balmiki Singh always share the things which are irrelevant to the context... He has nothing to do with question asked he only talk what he want and share his not needed experiences...he always start his remark with when I was...
There is a huge gap between political and police relation. Police are forced by strong political party and crimes are to be spooked. In our country there are federal systems ( sharing of powers ) but one party can't enjoy broadly because of another strong party. I don't know why state minister ( CM ) are not cooperate because they are engage with some civilian and criminal 🙄 Police are sensible but they are under political party of the states
Finallly, someone pointed this. He does often. In another RS Video, where topic was appointment of LG to Ladakh & JK, this gentleman's 1st comment was that "he was glad that they both r IAS officers". hahhaha....
How poorly Vishal manages the show! Mr. Roy got the least time to speak. And, Mr. Balmiki takes so much time and talks as if he is having discussion at home over a cup of coffee.
SMART Policing
- unveiled in DGP's conference 2014 in Guwahati
- 4 categories- sensitivity and responsiveness; properly equipped including forensics; technology empowering police to speed up the investigation and reaching police services to the common people; training is an enabler.
Issues:
Police force under the grip of the traditional British raj mindset. Police Act of 1861.
Lack of training
Lack of political and police relations.
Unequipped police stations.
Expenditure on police reforms is not on priority.
On 1st January 2017: Police population ration in India was 151 per lakh against the sanctioned ratio of 193. UN recommends 222 policemen per lakh of population.
The number of women personnel: less than 10% of total strength. The crime rate between 2005-18 increased by 28% but the conviction rate in IPC crimes in 2015 was only 47%.
30% vacancies in the police forces. 7-8% in central police forces.
Trust is low.
Budget: 3.5-4%.
Journey:
National Police Commission
Soli Sorabjee- Model Police Act
Prakash Singh case.
- Sharing of intelligence in real-time.
- Guarantee minimum tenure for senior police officers.
- Rs 8000 crore for reforms.
- Drone technology, Robotics, Big data analysis, Artificial Intelligence
- Rethinking, constant upgradation, and innovation and state of the art technology.
- Act smart and deliver smart.
Thank you so much for summarizing all these points. 🙏
Thankyou so much
Great work buddy👍
Thanks you very very much
Dr. VIKRAM SINGH SIR ....THANKS A LOT WE ARE MISS YOU SIR ALWAYS .... AWESOME AND VERY INTERESTING AND USEFUL POINT U MENTION SIR...👌👌
♨️😅.....Thanks RS TV....
😅♨️
Dear Jay,
A big God bless!Thank you very much for your kind observations.
Best wishes
Today's pannel was awesome...
Good choice of panel members. All of them knew it from their experience what needs to be done.
Just Increase the Time Limit of the show. It is so much fascinating & Knowledgeable to understand the different aspects of the Panelists
This is desperately needed. Policing has to turn 180 degrees.
People today are more scared of police than criminals because of lack of soft skills and accepted norms of taking bribe for performing even the regular duties expected from police.
Other reforms will first have to kick in for smart policing to happen like increasing the number of police personnel and decreasing the work load.
Police to Autonomous.... Autonomous open freedom.... freedom act all the effort...which are necessary for society and also Nation..... thank you
Four Major Blocks-
1-Sensitivity and response of the police to the citizen
2-Being equipped
3-Technology in the larger sense
- precision and speed, technology as a tactical advantage to police
4-Training: A Enabler
*Nature of crime has changed, technology will change before the reforms
*police are in the group of traditional British Raj Mindset
(Lack of training, political interference )
*Police stations should be upgraded to cater with the modern nature of crime
*Expenditure on police don't get priority
*Intra state nature of crime and lack of communication between state polices.
*Police:Population ration is poor
*Smarting doesn't mean new uniform
*vacancies needs to be filled up
*Constant upgrade of technology
*DIMENSIONS OF CRIME :CYBER TECHNOLOGY
*ROLE OF ROBOTICS AND BIG DATA ANALYSIS
*REAL-TIME DATA AND INFO SHARING TO TACKLE cross border
*People friendly police is the need of the hour
*Police needs to be generation ahead of criminals
*Smart means delivery of smart
*National Police commission
*Padmanavi committee
*Soli Sorabjee Committee
*Prakash Singh Case
*Surveys show less trust in Police
-Less Spending by states on police forces (3-4%)
*UN recommends
*Low conviction rate in IPC cases (47%), Law commission points out that this is because of poor investigations.
*State utilize 14% of the budget on reforms
*Draft Model Act to avoid pol interference
*SC guidelines on Police reforms
*All stakeholders gotta made the efforts.
*Two components
-Internal ones - that are within the police machinery itself - right training,
-External ones - of interference by the political system
Police should have freedom and liberty.
*Political parties get benefited from a puppet police force and that is one reason that there is no pol consensus on reforms
*Focus of police have shifted from poor people to the rich elite class
*Police and culture suffer most by the financial crunch of states.
*Common man should feel confident while interacting with a policeman
*Most of the funding of police spend money on salaries rather than modernization
*Make police more sensitive
*We must give credit to Police and especially lower-level personnel that they work hard and ensure democracy with minimum resources
one of the best panels and discussions. Thankyou so much sir.
Well pointed Mr Vikram Sir..
Thnk u soooo muchhh vishal sir😊😊😊
Vikram sir ne apna bharass nikaal diya
One of the best episodes
Very nice and quality discussion
(from baliyans website)
Context:
Vice President of India has stressed on the need to make policing and police station people-centric and receptive. He suggested tapping the IT potential in investigation and safety and security management and emphasised on the need to address the shortage of manpower, improving transport and communication facilities and other aspects of police reforms as suggested by the Supreme Court.
Background
The police organization in India in its present form is based essentially on thePolice Act of 1861, which was legislated “to re-organize the police and to make it a more efficient instrument for the prevention and detection of crime”.
The colonial mindset of the police, the distrust people had for the police in British India has continued to date.
Both pre and post-independence, a number of committees and commissions have been appointed and have deliberated upon various aspects of streamlining the effectiveness of police governance in the country.
Summary of the Debate
What is Smart Policing?
The concept was introduced by the Prime Minister during the 49th annual conference of Directors-General and Inspectors-General of Police at Guwahati in 2014.
The term SMART stands for S-Sensitive and Strict; M-Modern with mobility; A- Alert and Accountable; R- Reliable and Responsive; T- Trained and Techno-savvy.
Sensitivity, fully equipped/equipments, Technology and Training are main pillars of smart policing.
The sensitivity and responsivenessof the police to the people is the main area where we need to work.
Highly upgraded equipment and other technologies are needed because the pattern of crimes has been changed.
Training of police personnel to achieve modern-day targets is necessary.
What is the current situation of the police system in India?
Under the Constitution, police is a subject governed by states. Therefore, each of the 29 states has their own police forces.
The centre is also allowed to maintain its own police forces to assist the states with ensuring law and order. Therefore, it maintains seven central police forces and some other police organisations for specialised tasks such as intelligence gathering, investigation, research and record-keeping, and training.
Police stations are ill-equipped and the police are still under the grip of the traditional British Raj mindset in regards to the professional abilities and things are not changing because of many reasons like lack of training and lack of political will.
What are some challenges and problems related to the Police system in India?
Expenditure on police accounts for about 3% of the central and state government budgets.
State police forces had 24% vacancies (about 5.5 lakh vacancies) in January 2016. Hence, while the sanctioned police strength was 181 police per lakh persons in 2016, the actual strength was 137 police. Note that the United Nations recommended standard is 222 police per lakh persons.
Crime per lakh population has increased by 28% over the last decade (2005-2015). However, convictions have been low. In 2015, convictions were secured in 47% of the cases registered under the Indian Penal Code, 1860. The Law Commission has observed that one of the reasons behind this is the poor quality of investigations.
CAG audits have found shortages in weaponry with state police forces. For example, Rajasthan and West Bengal had shortages of 75% and 71% respectively in required weaponry with the state police.
The Bureau of Police Research and Development has also noted a 30.5% deficiency in stock of required vehicles (2, 35,339 vehicles) with the state forces.
Police have the power to investigate crimes, enforce laws and maintain law and order in a state. To ensure that such power is only used for legitimate purposes, various countries have adopted safeguards such as making police accountable to the political executive and creating independent oversight authorities.
In India, the political executive (i.e., ministers) has the power of superintendence and control over the police forces to ensure their accountability. The Second Administrative Reforms Commission has noted that this power has been misused, and ministers have used police forces for personal and political reasons.
What has been done so far for police reforms?
The problem with the police reforms and the problems for strengthening a police force have been discussed on a number of occasions.
The Government of India appointed a National Police Commission in 1977and it submitted eight detailed reports between 1979 and 1981 which contained comprehensive recommendations covering the entire gamut of police working.
Apart from the National Police Commission, several other bodies were constituted from time to time to go into the question of police reforms. These were:
Gore Committee on Police Training (1971-73)
Ribeiro Committee on Police Reforms (1998)
Padmanabhaiah Committee on Police Reforms (2000)
Group of Ministers on National Security (2000-01)
Malimath Committee on Reforms of Criminal Justice System (2001-3)
Supreme Court Directives on Prakash Singh vs Union of India (2006)
Second Administrative Reform Commission recommendation on Police Reform
In a landmark judgment in 2006, the Supreme Court ordered the setting up of three institutions at the state level with a view to insulating the police from extraneous influences, giving it functional autonomy and ensuring its accountability.
What are the possible solutions?
On one hand, there is unemployment and on other hands there is an anachronism that we have 30 percent of vacancies. These vacancies should be filled up.
Police need high graded technology for communication. It has to be the state of the art. Artificial intelligence, Big data analytics, robotics and real-time sharing of intelligence is the need of the hour.
A survey of 15000 respondents indicated that less than 25 percent of them trusted the police. Police need to be people-friendly. Police’ failure in developing a people-friendly image is its inability to perform one of its core functions i.e. register crimes. There is a need for some drastic changes to this.
The proper amount of money and resources should be allotted to police departments.
Political will is very important. States should at least implement the recommendations of the Supreme Court to full extent.
External interference is a major hurdle in the current scenario for the police system. It should be minimised through proper policies and hardcore will.
Way forward
Smart policing is not just about putting up smart uniform, it is about behave smart, act smart and deliver smart.
All the stakeholders will need to go ahead together and take a grip of the situation to try and find solutions to all the problems regarding the police system and smart policing.
Police will have to be made more sensitive to the citizens and also their problems need to be addressed by the leaders in the police force as well as the political leadership.
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Loved this discussion, viewing it second time...✨
I never thought police officers could be so polite
Thanks to visal sir
The police reform in its first step needs an image make over. Whatever statistics we have about crime rate by the NCRB merely depends upon the 5% FIRs that gets recorded. Nearly 95% of the crimes are not recorded at the very first place. Policing must be people centric and an cordial relationship between public and police is a prerequisite to any form of Smart policing.
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Balmiki Singh always share the things which are irrelevant to the context... He has nothing to do with question asked he only talk what he want and share his not needed experiences...he always start his remark with when I was...
There is a huge gap between political and police relation. Police are forced by strong political party and crimes are to be spooked.
In our country there are federal systems ( sharing of powers ) but one party can't enjoy broadly because of another strong party.
I don't know why state minister ( CM ) are not cooperate because they are engage with some civilian and criminal 🙄
Police are sensible but they are under political party of the states
Mr. BP Singh adds very little to the discussion, digresses too much and cannot refrain from pointing out that he was 'home secretary' once!
Finallly, someone pointed this. He does often. In another RS Video, where topic was appointment of LG to Ladakh & JK, this gentleman's 1st comment was that "he was glad that they both r IAS officers". hahhaha....
Where are you my dear Frank???
Plz come back .frank ....
Mr balmiki prasad must be smoking a really good stuff these days.. 😂😂
Finally when he comes to police Constable issue it sounded like he is real high !!
Don't bring the old man !!!!!!!!!
How poorly Vishal manages the show! Mr. Roy got the least time to speak. And, Mr. Balmiki takes so much time and talks as if he is having discussion at home over a cup of coffee.
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