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Delhi Police: i) Number of employees; ii) IPC crimes registered, 2012-15; Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, January 22, 2016

Delhi Police vis-à-vis Mumbai Police on social media, as in Jan 2016; Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, January 28, 2016

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1 The background
- 1.1 Control of Delhi Police
  - 1.1.1 History: how Delhi city lost control over its police
2 Language used in FIRs
- 2.1 HC questions continued use of Urdu, Persian words
  - 2.1.1 2019
3 Law and order
- 3.1 New Delhi Law and order Reserve Force/ 2018
- 3.2 Law and order zones
  - 3.2.1 Delhi
    - 3.2.1.1 2016: Delhi has 2 law and order zones under 3 officers
    - 3.2.1.2 July 2017: Women from north-east recruited for security in Delhi
4 Lawyers vs. the Police
- 4.1 1988-2019
5 Naib courts
- 5.1 HC: Reshuffle naib courts every 3 years
6 Personnel issues
7 Police stations
8 Women
- 8.1 Policing for women-related crimes
  - 8.1.1 2012-20
- 8.2 2018: women DCPs in 4 of 13 districts

The background

Solution May Lie In Devolving Some Powers To State

Manoj Mitta | TNN

The Times of India

New Delhi: Ever since the Delhi assembly came into existence in 1993, both Congres and BJP have been clamouring for full statehood for the national capital. Arvind Kejriwal’s dharna and his partial success on Tuesday in pushing the Centre to yield to some of his demands against the police have served to highlight a constitutional anomaly about Delhi.

In their political rhetoric, Congres, BJP and AAP all agree on doing away with the anomaly of Delhi Police being outside the administrative control of the capital’s elected government.

This lacuna in the jurisdiction of the national capital’s government is why Delhi is not considered a state despite having an assembly and a CM. The stalemate has remained unresolved despite different models available in other national capitals to balance democratic and security exigencies (see graphic).

Unlike its counterparts in states, the Delhi assembly is barred by Article 239AA(3)(a) of the Constitution from making laws on three of the 66 state list entries. The three subjects that do not apply to the Delhi assembly — and therefore the Delhi government — are Entries 1, 2 and 18 dealing with public order, police and land.

The sensitivity of the situation can be gauged from the fact that even when the NDA government made an abortive bid in 2003 to confer statehood on Delhi, the Bill introduced by L K Advani steered clear of Entries 1 and 2 that deal with the city’s security.

As a corollary, the Delhi Police commissioner reports to the Lt Governor, who in turn discharges functions relating to public order and police with Union home ministry’s concurrence. This means that when there is a law and order breakdown, the Delhi CM can only demand action against errant police officials, as Kejriwal did through his dharna. However grave the provocation, the CM cannot suspend or transfer any policeman.

Tthe peculiarity of Delhi is evident from the special exemption enjoyed by Lutyens Delhi, the seat of India’s government, from the constitutional obligation of having an elected municipality. In this prime area where Kejriwal held his dharna and which constitutes 3% of Delhi, the centre owns most of the land and 80% of buildings. Hence, the conventional pattern of representative local self-government was found unworkable. The New Delhi Municipal Council is essentially nominated by the Union government.

The larger context in which the Delhi government took to the streets was the failure across the country to implement the 2006 SC judgment mandating reforms to insulate police from illegal political interference and to make them accountable to independent watchdog bodies. While most states have disregarded the verdict, the Centre has not so far enacted a fresh law which would have introduced police reforms in Delhi. This is despite a model Bill proposed by the Soli Sorabjee Committee in 2006.

Control of Delhi Police

History: how Delhi city lost control over its police

Centre firmed its grip on cops with orders, not laws

Abhinav Garg TNN

The Times of India

Before 1947, Delhi Police was a part of Punjab Police

In 1948, it got an IGP — D W Mehra

The post of commissioner of police was instituted in 1978. J N Chaturvedi was the first CP

Earlier, the IGP reported to the Delhi chief secretary. Now, the CP reports to the lieutenant governor of National Capital Territory

The reporting structure of Delhi Police is complex. MHA exercises overarching control But the Union home secretary and LG jointly supervise the force

Arvind Kejriwal is not the first chief minister of Delhi to demand the state’s control over its police. The Centre’s first move to take away much of the city’s influence over Delhi Police in 1996 drew noisy protests from the BJP government at the time. The Sheila Dikshit government was also vociferous in demanding control over the 85,000-strong force but meekly submitted to the Centre’s 2011 decision to deprive it of all remaining powers. TOI traces the history of this ‘takeover’ through a trail of documents accessed from the Delhi government.

The papers show that until 2011, the lieutenant governor and the city government’s finance department had a say in police’s budgetary allocation. But in early 2011, the home ministry unilaterally attached police’s budget to its grants. It also blamed the state’s public works department (PWD) for dragging projects and ordered that a PSU like NBCC be awarded police-related construction work. The ministry took these decisions unilaterally through executive orders, without much discussion with the local government and the Centre.

Early in 1996, the MHA had taken away Delhi Police’s budget from the city government and laid down modalities for its separate accounting. It reshuffled existing arrangements by making Delhi administration’s accountants—maintaining Delhi Police accounts—report to it. The state government responded with a note. Principal secretary (finance), P S Baidwan, pushed for keeping Delhi government’s stake in finalizing the police budget saying it is “essential to monitor the expenditure and also it will help in scrutinizing various proposals in their proper perspective”. He pointed out that Delhi Police was not created under powers conferred in the ‘union’ list of subjects, unlike CRPF or BSF, but owed its existence to a schedule in the ‘state’ list, and hence should not be controlled by MHA. The correct constitutional position, he said, would be “for MHA to provide funds to the LG to administer the reserved items within his delegated powers”.

The note prompted then chief secretary P V Jaikrishnan to issue an office order in September 1996 forming a ‘standing finance committee’ with the police commissioner and the finance secretary as members for Delhi Police’s budget, maintaining the Delhi administration’s influence in police affairs. The matter was given a quiet burial with MHA acknowledging Jaikrishnan’s order.

For the next 15 years, the tenuous arrangement held firm, with the LG and Delhi government both having a say in police proposals, expenditure, modernization plans, etc. However, in July 2011 the MHA brought police’s pay and accounts under its chief controller of accounts. Delhi’s finance department again protested and sought a review but MHA succeeded in gaining full control. In a meeting chaired by then joint secretary (UT) K K Pathak, the ministry conveyed to the state government its decision to take control of the police budget.

By April 2012, the MHA ended Delhi government’s remaining influence. The state would no longer approve police modernization projects nor sanction money for them. Instead, MHA would be the sole arbiter for technical and administrative approvals.

Delhi’s cabinet minister Manish Sisodia accused the Centre of systematically conspiring to take full control of Delhi Police in the past 2-3 years. “Despite being included in the state list, Delhi Police has been taken over by MHA. For this, an amendment in the Constitution of India is required but it has been effected by executive orders by joint secretary-level officers. The illegality was possible because there were Congres governments at the Centre and in Delhi. We demand a new Delhi Police Act to place police under the state government’s full control,”

Language used in FIRs

HC questions continued use of Urdu, Persian words

August 8, 2019: The Times of India

HC asks why cops still use Urdu, Persian words

New Delhi:

Why is Delhi Police still using Persian and Urdu words while registering FIR, Delhi high court sought to know on Wednesday. It asked Delhi Police commissioner to explain why “high sounding and bombastic” words in these languages are still in use when it becomes difficult for a common person to understand.

A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar pointed out that FIR should ideally be in the words of the complainant who has come with a grievance and too much flowery language, the meaning of which has to be discerned from a dictionary, ought not to be used.

“Too much flowery language should not be used. FIR should be in the words of the complainant. Police is there for public at large and not just for persons with doctorate degree in Urdu or Persian. Simple language should be used, instead of high sounding words. People have to know what is written. It is applicable to use of English also. Don’t use bombastic language,” the bench remarked, while seeking the stand of the police chief on the matter.

It directed the police commissioner to file an affidavit explaining why Urdu or Persian words are still in use when complainants approaching the cops mostly use simple language to narrate their ordeal. The court listed the matter for November 25.

Delhi high court was hearing a PIL, by advocate Vishalakshi Goel, seeking directions to Delhi Police not to use Urdu and Persian words in FIRs, arguing that it becomes difficult for a normal citizen to understand or follow what the police have done with their complaint in case of a crime having occurred.

Delhi government additional standing counsel Naushad Ahmed Khan, appearing for the police, said that Urdu and Persian words used in FIRs can be understood by making a little effort. He also said that the words are used when transferring the FIR to higher authorities.

In a separate PIL raising similar concerns, Delhi Police had, a few years ago, defended the usage of words such as zaabta (law), majroob (injured), imroz (today), etc, arguing that due to long and continuous usage in police documents, the public has become familiar with these.

Delhi Police had also argued that if it switched to Hindi, it would create fresh difficulties for the force and the layman.

2019

Aamir Khan2, Nov 27, 2019: The Times of India

Urdu, Persian words in FIRs
From: Aamir Khan2, Nov 27, 2019: The Times of India

FIRs should be in the simplest language possible, Delhi high court has said while directing Delhi Police to present 100 FIRs from different police stations in the national capital to see if cops were refraining from using “complicated” Urdu and Persian words.

A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar have passed the direction pursuant to a circular issued by the DCP (legal cell), Delhi Police, asking all police officers to refrain from using “archaic Urdu/Persian” words. “Urdu/Persian words are being used mechanically by cops without knowing the meaning and proper application of mind,” the bench noted. The court stressed that there was no need for police to show their knowledge of Urdu and Persian words.

Delhi Police’s list contained 383 terms in Urdu or Persian with their translation in Hindi and English. Referring to the list, the court emphasised that public, at large, may not be able to understand all these Urdu or Persian words. As a result, it asked for the list to be given along with the FIR to a person seeking the FIR copy. The list, it added, may not be “exhaustive” as there can be other similar Urdu and Persian words being used in FIRs which are not mentioned in it. “The practice of using these words in the FIR ought to be stopped by police,” the bench directed. Referring to the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, the bench said FIR was the “most vital document” prepared by police for it set the process of criminal justice in motion.

“In fact the copy of the FIR is required to be sent to the magistrate immediately as it is an immediate version of the narration of the whole offence. In court, the FIR is required to be read time and again, hence, it should be in a simple language or it should be in the language of a person who has approached police to lodge an FIR,” the judges noted.

A PIL had challenged the usage of Urdu or Persian words in FIRs on the ground of inconvenience for general public. Pursuant to a court order on August 7, 2019, Delhi Police issued a circular to its officers to “evade using archaic Urdu/Persian words” and come out with the list. High court now wants to know if the circular is being followed by subordinate officers in “letter and spirit”. It said, “Minimum 100 copies of FIRs should be presented before the court on the next date of hearing.”

Law and order

New Delhi Law and order Reserve Force/ 2018

Sidharth Bhardwaj, Elite team to ward off trouble during protests, June 20, 2018: The Times of India

The New Delhi Law and order Reserve Force
From: Sidharth Bhardwaj, Elite team to ward off trouble during protests, June 20, 2018: The Times of India

Force Pressed Into Action For First Time During AAP Stir

Taking a cue from police forces of western countries, Delhi Police has created a special team for crowd control. The New Delhi Law and Order Reserve Force was tested for the first time after its recent formation during the protest by Aam Aadmi Party.

Young policemen from different stations in the capital have been posted to the new unit to act when law and order deteriorates during demonstrations, said Madhur Verma, DCP (New Delhi). The creation of such a special unit was necessitated by the almost daily protests in Lutyens' Delhi, which houses important government buildings and important institutions.

“Organisations frequently hold protests without acquiring permissions from us,” observed a police officer. “In many cases, the crowd goes out of control and enter government offices and public institutions such as Vigyan Bhawan and Shastri Bhawan.” He said that the crowd control unit will work to deter people from resorting to hooliganism.

Till now the practice was to call in reserves from all police stations to implement mob control measures. After deciding to create a permanent team for the purpose, such personnel were given special courses and training in anti-rioting and crowd management operations. So far, around 100 policemen aged 25-35 have been inducted into the new unit, which is based in the New Delhi district lines.

Each member, deployed on a six-month deputation, will be equipped with lightweight body armour, technical gear and canes. “These items were specially procured for the Law and Order Force. They have been kept light in consideration of the long duration the cops might have be at their posts,” said an officer, exuding optimism that the mere presence of a team of young cops with body armour and canes will act as a deterrence against hooliganism.

For easy mobility, the cops have been given motorcycles and buses with GPS system so their location can be monitored in real time by the control room team. The tests have revealed that the unit can reach any spot in Lutyens’ Delhi perimeter in five to eight minutes.

The standard operating procedure requires any police station experiencing deterioration in law and order to make a request for the special unit, which will be directed then to help the local police. Senior officers said they were contemplating an increase in the reserve force’s troop strength. A proposal to create similar units for other areas of the capital is also being considered.

Law and order zones

Delhi

2016: Delhi has 2 law and order zones under 3 officers

The Times of India, Feb 04 2016

The zones that Delhi was divided into for policing purposes in 2016; Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, Feb 04 2016

Rajshekhar Jha

Call it a way to improve enforcement in Delhi or a clever manoeuvre by outgoing Delhi police commissioner B S Bassi, but Delhi has now been divided into two law and order zones under the stewardship of three officers. Two officers of special commissioner rank will have charge of each area and both will report to a third special commissioner, who will, therefore, be the overall law and order chief of the capital. Bassi, who has less than a month till superannuation, gave details of the new arrangement on Wednesday after a two-hour meeting with the officers selected for the new roles. Sources said that S N Shrivastava and Amulya Patnaik, both of them special commissioners (ADG scale), were informed about their new responsibilities. They will report to Deepak Mishra, special commissioner (DG scale), a 1984-batch officer.

Shrivastava will be re sponsible for the north zone, which will include central range (central and north districts), northern range (north-west and outer districts) and eastern range (east and north-east districts). Patnaik will oversee law and order in the south zone, comprising south-eastern range (south and southeast districts), south-western range (west and south-west districts) and New Delhi range (New Delhi district and railways). The law and order unit till date had Mishra at the top, assisted by the joint commissioner of the various ranges.

Both Shrivastava and Patnaik have a reputation for being no-nonsense officers. The former headed the anti-terror unit of the Delhi Police (special cell) for close to three years until his transfer to another unit recently . The latter led the vigilance unit and had infused new life into the virtually dead wing of Delhi Police.

However, a top officer said this was a “temporary arrangement“ and likely to change once the incoming police chief settles down. While admitting the step could ensure better handling of the law and order in the capital, many senior officers also said the decision appeared more to be Bassi's efforts to contain inter-force politics. “That this is a please-all decision is evident from the timing, else why wasn't this done much earlier?“ an officer commented.

Bassi had earlier triggered resentment among the top echelons when he created the post of “senior“ special commissioners to accommodate Dharmendra Kumar, Vimla Mehra and Mishra. Before the lieutenant-governor struck down the “promotions“, Kumar had been given charge of important units like special cell and crime branch, apart from traffic. Mishra was put in charge of law and order, vigilance, armed police and recruitment. The other special commissioners had been asked to report to the trio.

July 2017: Women from north-east recruited for security in Delhi

Raj Shekhar, 41 NE women commandos to man frontline defences in Delhi , Aug 2, 2017: The Times of India

HIGHLIGHTS

The women commandos from Northeast would helm the security detail at Red Fort and India Gate

Inducted into the force as constables, they have already undergone a rigorous 10-month police training

Undergoing training by the best in the business, these 41 women commandos from Northeast may be second to none when it comes to handling a terror strike or a hostage situation. This Independence Day, these elite women cops would helm the security detail at Red Fort and India Gate, amid intelligence inputs of women Fidayeen planning to target the capital.

Right now, these women are in the middle of a four-month advance commando training at Jharoda Kalan. Inducted into the force as constables, they have already undergone a rigorous 10-month police training, which they completed with exceptionally good grades. The new commando force is the brainchild of police commissioner Amulya Patnaik.

According to special commissioner Dependra Pathak, these commandos will be posted with different units, including Parakram and SWAT. "Many of them will be posted in the anti-terror Parakram vans. As of now, there are 10 such vans and each of them has a women commando. Fifteen more vans will be inducted soon and these commandos will be deployed there too," he added.

An ACP-rank officer, O P Sharma, is heading the training programme. To cross the language barrier, an instructor from the Northeast has been roped in. "These policemen are extremely professional and dedicated towards their training. They can spring from deep sleep to action — fully armed — within a minute of an alarm being sounded. There is an amazing mix of cultures on display at the academy at present," said Sharma.

The training includes advanced hand-to-hand combat moves from Krav Maga, a form of martial art developed by the Israeli army. Most of these women had joined Delhi Police in 2016. Pressed into action, they can carry out reconnaissance, design maps and begin an assault within 10 minutes of reaching a spot. Each "hit-team" consists of a team leader, two recce officers, a communication specialist, two sharpshooters and a medic.

Each commando is armed with an AK-47 assault rifle, or an MP5 submachine gun, with at least four 30-round magazines, a Glock 17 or Glock 26 pistol, hand grenades, a wireless set, a 20-metre nylon rope, a pencil torch, a bulletproof helmet (patka for Sikhs), bulletproof jacket, flame torch, cutter and a commando dagger. Special knee and elbow pads are also worn for protection during stealth attacks. The commandos also learn warfare techniques, such as identifying improvised explosive devices.

These commandos are best equipped to handle crises in the capital as their training and combat skills are Delhi-centric — from climbing multi-storey buildings within seconds to rescuing hostages from a room located in the core of a hotel, or a DTC bus or the Metro.

Lawyers vs. the Police

1988-2019

Abhinav Garg, Nov 3, 2019: The Times of India

Lawyers vs. the Delhi Police, 2014-17
From: Abhinav Garg, Nov 3, 2019: The Times of India

Images and videos of policemen chasing lawyers and vehicles burning in a court complex recalled a similar incident over three decades ago. The face-off at Tis Hazari is also a reminder that not much has changed in the relations between the men in uniform and those donning black robes since the time they first clashed in 1988.

That day, Kiran Bedi, India’s first woman IPS officer and at the time a young deputy commissioner of police, had a showdown with the capital’s lawyers who had brought the courts to a halt for a prolonged period. Much like in Saturday’s case, the confrontation in 1988 had begun with a trivial argument over parking, the trigger being the arrest of the lawyer for alleged theft and of him being handcuffed.

What could have easily been defused through the intervention of the police brass and the bar association turned instead into a full blown fight, in which police cane-charged the lawyers, leaving many of them injured. This infamous episode led to one of the longest strikes in the history of the Delhi Bar Association.

Till date, both sides have justified their actions of that day, though the Justice D P Wadhwa Committee indicted Delhi Police and Bedi in particular even as the latter maintained the lawyers had run amok, thus inviting a strong response.

Hours after the clash, Delhi high court Chief Justice D N Patel convened a meeting of the Administrative Committee comprising seven top judges. Sources told TOI that Delhi’s additional chief secretary and the joint commissioner of Delhi Police of the area concerned were also summoned to the court. Justice Patel is learnt to have conveyed his concern over the security of lawyers and litigants in the court complex, Police apparently informed him that FIRs had been filed and investigation was under way.

The clashes indicate a deeper flaw and absence of a mechanism that would allow both sides to calm their members. In 2016, several lawyers ran riot in Patiala House Courts assaulting JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar and journalists in sight of police. The same year a group of lawyers clashed with policemen in the Rohini court after an advocate was detained for refusing to be frisked while entering the court complex. In 2017, an SHO was allegedly assaulted by a lawyer in the Karkardooma court in relation to the latter’s earlier arrest.

While senior police officers say the men on the spot are best positioned to take a call in such cases, lawyers maintain that the police brass has failed to rein in rogue elements. Perhaps it needs a decisive intervention of the bar and the bench to prevent recurrence of violence.

Naib courts

HC: Reshuffle naib courts every 3 years

Abhinav Garg|HC tells police to reshuffle naib courts every 3 yrs|Jul 10 2017 : The Times of India (Delhi)

HC tells police to reshuffle naib courts every 3 yrs

New Delhi The Delhi high court has asked Delhi Police to reshuffle naib courts every three years. A naib court is a policeman who acts as the link between the local police station, jail authorities and the court concerned having the jurisdiction of a particular area. They function in close coordination with the prosecution and under supervision of the local DCP . They are mostly of the rank of constable or head constable.

From maintaining a register of summons issued or directions given to police officials connected to a case to ensuring compliance of the orders by the police, a naib court is an important cog in the wheel of justice delivery and is attached to the Prosecution Branch in each court complex where criminal cases are heard.

A recent missive sent to police commissioner Amulya Patnaik by the HC administration under instructions from acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal, said that “continuous and long postings“ of naib courts in the same court give an impression of a “nexus.“

The letter, sent by RG Dinesh Sharma informs the CP that “High Court of Delhi is in receipt of lot of complaints that there is unhealthy practice of continuous postings of particular naib courts in the same courts or with the same judicial officers for long durations.“ The RG's letter further adds that in order to “inspire confidence of litigants and lawyers, Honorable Acting Chief Justice has been pleased to direct that a naib court may not be posted in the same court same court complex and with the same judicial officer for more than one tenure.“

It clarified that by one tenure, the court administration means a period not exceeding three years under any circumstances.

Until now, the police brass posted naib courts to prosecution branch of a court complex from where they are attached to individual courts.

Personnel issues

Benefits to cops

Benefits after 15 years’ service

Higher rank, perks for cops serving for 15 yrs, Nov 09 2016 : The Times of India

Delhi Police has issued a circular according to which constables and head constables who have completed 15 years of service would be entitled to a senior position immediately .

A head constable promoted to an assistant sub-inspector would also be eligible to become an investigating officer of a case, thereby easing the load of existing IOs.Senior officers said these special grade policemen would be tasked to handle petty cases that are now probed by officers ranked higher.

The rules provide for promotion but due to the infamous red tape and infrastructure issues, a constable sometimes ends up serving in the same rank for 25 years; some even retire with that rank.Now, departmental promotion may take its own pace but personnel would be able to seek the benefits of designation and uniform. Nearly one-fifth of the force, or 28,000 personnel, would benefit from this.

According to the circular, any constable given a special grade would be promoted as head constable subject to eligibility. However, higher grades would not create new po sitions in Delhi police. A constable given a rank of head constable would be allowed to wear such rank insignia and receive the grade pay of a head constable.

A committee would soon be constituted to look for eligible personnel and improve their grades. Special rank officers would also receive 30-day training before assuming functions of a higher rank.

A constable would be eligible for a minimum of three promotions till he reaches the rank of a sub-inspector based on the number of years in service. Similar steps have been taken in Punjab, Kerala and Puducherry already . In the past four months, 4,498 policemen have already been granted higher ranks.

Vacancies

The Centre had earlier asked Delhi Police to put forward a recruitment proposal. In 2014, HC directed the Centre to fill up 14,000 posts. It was further brought down by MHA to 4,227 posts.

Crimes against policemen

Crimes against policemen, 2013-16; The Times of India, Jan 4, 2017

See graphic

Crimes against policemen, 2013-16

Dismissal from service

2018: 61 policemen fired, 2,000+ faced the whip

January 10, 2019: The Times of India

The annual crime data of the Delhi Police has revealed that 61 police personnel were dismissed from service in 2018. The department also initiated disciplinary action against 2,069 officers last year.

Police commissioner Amulya Patnaik said there is zero tolerance on corruption in the force and encouraged people to come forward with their complaints against policemen.

The data on action taken by the vigilance unit of Delhi Police showed 472 inquires being conducted in 2018. Of these, allegations in 107 vigilance cases were proven against 272 police officers. Among those who faced disciplinary action were five ACP-rank officers and 62 inspector-rank officers.

Delhi Police also suspended 433 personnel, ranging from inspectors to constables, in 2018 for disciplinary matters. Inaction, corruption and harassment remained the major issues that prompted actions against the errant cops.

The department used an array of methods to receive complaints of wrongdoings by the cops. These included the anticorruption helpline — 99106 41064, which received 638 calls in 2018. Of these, 378 complaints were related to inaction by the police staff, while 171 calls were regarding corruption and 89 calls were for other complaints. Of the complaints, the unit initiated action in 73 instances.

The flying squad of the vigilance branch, led by an ACPrank officer, attended to 1,238 complaint calls at various police stations in the city. Apart from them, the special surveillance teams conducted 87 surprise checks to ascertain the performance of traffic cops, PCR vans and beat officers, who tend to have the most interaction with the public.

The police data also revealed that 318 cops, including seven inspector rank officers, were given major punishments after inquiries were conducted by the vigilance unit. In total, 1,690 personnel were given minor punishments after the conclusion of inquiries against them.

The unit, which maintains a list of cops with doubtful integrity, added 833 names to the list in 2018. The vigilance unit removed the names of 550 cops after probing allegations against them, while 725 cops continue to remain on the watch.

People actively sent their grievances to the official email ID of the top cop — cp.amulyapatnaik@delhipolice.gov.in and delpol@vsnl.com with 34,346 complaints being received and forwarded for necessary action.

Police chief Amulya Patnaik said there is zero tolerance on corruption in the policce force and encouraged people to come forward with their complaints

Minority communities in the ranks, less than 4%/ 2017

Muslims form less than 2% of police force, November 25, 2017: The Hindu

The Delhi Police, which has a strength of around 80,000 personnel, employs less than 4% of members from minority communities in its ranks, according to a report by the Delhi Minorities Commission (DMC).

CM releases report

The annual report, released by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also shows that Muslims, the largest minority group in Delhi, form less than 2% of the police force here.

The report said the force has 1,388 Muslim personnel and 697 Christian personnel. It said the Delhi Police employs 856 Sikh personnel.

“The Delhi Police has 1.79% personnel from the Muslim community. In total, it has 3,035 personnel from minority communities who form 3.91% of the total strength of the force,” the commission said in its report.

In the report, the DMC has identified 12 departments and corporations of which members of the minority communities are a part. Apart from the police, the Delhi Fire Service (DFS) has a total of 26 members from minority communities which is the lowest among 12 departments and corporations.

DMRC members

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) employees 283 members from minority communities.

However, the Directorate of Training tops the list at 13.33%, followed by the Public Grievance Commission at 7.69% and the Directorate General of Home Guards at 5.22%.

Recruitment in Delhi Police

2015: Recruitment of constables

The Times of India, Oct 30 2015

One constable for every 262 Delhiites

Delhi Police, one of the largest metropolitan police forces in the world with a sanctioned strength of around 72,000, is likely to recruit more than 15,000 additional personnel in a major boost to its manpower.

The Union home ministry is working on a proposal to sanction the additional posts which would translate to at least a 20% increase in numbers and would be the biggest expansion of the Del hi Police. Women are likely to get a third of these posts.

“As part of its initiative to improve policing in the capital, the ministry proposes to recruit 15,000-20,000 consta bles into the Delhi Police over a period of time. The Cabinet note is being drafted and will be put up for approv al soon,“ a home ministry official told. According to data from the Bureau of Police Research and Development, Delhi Police had a sanctioned strength of 72,686 personnel (civil and district armed police) as on January 1, 2014. It far exceeds the national average in terms of population per policeman.

As against one constable for every 262 Delhiites, the national average stands at one policeman for 716 persons.

The Delhi Police also beats all other metropolitan police forces in India in terms of manpower. As compared to 72,686 sanctioned strength of civil police in Delhi, Mumbai has just 48,969 policemen and Kolkata 22,834 policemen. There are 11 police sub-districts in Delhi, with 181 police stations, 23 out posts and 15 state armed police stations.

“The proposal to expand the Delhi Police may be included in the next year's general budget, which will earmark the required funds. The timeline for recruitment of the 15,000 constables is being decided,“ said a home ministry functionary . Union home minister Rajnath Singh has constantly pitched for strengthening the Delhi Police, laying particular stress on making the capital safer for women.

The sanctioned strength of constabulary in the Delhi Police, as per BPR&D data, was 18,989 head constables and 39,834 constables (including civil and district armed police) as on January 1, 2014. Each Delhi Police constable has an average 0.02 square kilometer of area under him.

Rogue list

2016/ Rogue list

`Rogue' list gets longer , Jan 2, 2017: The Times of India

Around a dozen Delhi Police personnel were arrested on criminal charges in 2016

Three traffic policemen we re caught recently for abducting a businessman. They drove him around central Delhi till he agreed to give them the money he was carrying to deposit at a bank. A few days later, a policeman was shot by criminals and it was later found that he was conniving with them to run a gambling racket and a dance bar in outer Delhi.

In May 2016, an SHO was arrested after he was found to be instigating the girlfriend of a criminal to commit suicide.The woman later reached the Tees Hazari police station and consumed poison, blaming the SHO for her death.

In 2016, the vigilance department had conducted 55% more inquires against its men.A Delhi Police survey found 34% of the cops to be corrupt in 2015, down from 66% in 2014.

Last year, the department registered 88 cases under the Prevention of Corruption Act against 77 policemen. Inquiries were conducted against 838 policemen, of which charges were proved against an ACP , 12 inspectors, 18 sub-inspectors, two ASIs, five head constables and 15 constables. Of the 490 cops suspended in 2015, 10 were inspectors, 90 sub-inspectors, 46 ASIs, and the rest were cons tables and home guards. Departmental inquiries were ordered against 1,017 officers and 90 policemen were dismissed from service following complaints.

The department got 1.09 lakh complaints on its anti-corruption helpline. A 24x7 flying squad was formed for corruption complaints. A mobile app was also launched for quick registration.

2018/ Rogue list

Over a dozen policemen in dock in last 12 months, August 1, 2018: The Times of India

Criminal charges against policemen, Delhi- 2017, 2018
From: Over a dozen policemen in dock in last 12 months, August 1, 2018: The Times of India

Criminal Charges Range From Corruption, Bribery, Kidnapping To Robbery

Delhi Police may be facing a major embarrassment with CBI arresting the SHO of a high-profile police station like Saket, but this not the first time this year that a cop from the force has been in the dock.

In the last one year, more than a dozen policemen of various ranks have been arrested on criminal charges ranging from corruption, bribery, kidnapping to robbery.

Just last week, two policemen were dismissed for being involved in a kidnapping case. In May, a cop in Samaypur Badli was dismissed for aiding drug dealers. An inspector was arrested in June for his involvement in a cheating and human trafficking racket. The same month, a sub-inspector and a constable from Punjabi Bagh police station were arrested and dismissed in a bribery case.

A few months ago, the police department was left rattled after a senior inspector and an intelligence bureau officer were arrested along with another associate on charges of running a transfer-posting racket. During searches, CBI had seized Rs 1.6 crore in cash. While this was seen as the tip of an iceberg, the arrests in the case remained limited to three.

The rising number of arrests of policemen indicates that not only does the vigilance branch need a complete revamp, but police commissioner Amulya Patnaik and his deputies need to monitor the activities of DCPs and SHOs more closely. Sources said that the lawyer arrested on Tuesday had uninterrupted access to offices of many senior officers.

In Tuesday’s operation, a hunt is on for another inspector from Hauz Khas police station who had also been on CBI’s radar in the past. The role of other policemen, including senior district-level officers, is being probed, sources said.

Questions are also being raised on how a tainted cop managed to get a posting in a high-profile south Delhi police station. Sources said police stations like Saket are among the most sought-after in the capital. Most of the times only a handful of “super SHOs” — inspectors heading big police stations — get posted there. Also, a handful of inspectors get to head the same police station twice in a span of a few years.

The police brass, however, claimed that the transfer board relies on various parameters to select an officer for the job. Delhi Police said they practice zero tolerance and policemen caught in such acts are dismissed immediately.

Shortage: extent, 2017

Somreet Bhattacharya, Cases taking ages without enough IOs, May 27, 2017: The Times of India

Pendency of investigation cases, 2012-16; Somreet Bhattacharya, Cases taking ages without enough IOs, May 27, 2017: The Times of India

Only 12% Hike In Officer Count Since 2012

Since 2012, while the cases being registered have gone up by 260%, the number of IOs has increased by only 12%.

The police have, however, got a breather as the Union home ministry sanctioned more than 4,000 posts for investigating officers (IO) last year to take some load off the overburdened cops. The de cision was taken after getting approval from the department of expenditure and finance ministry and has been made operational in two phases in 2016-17 and 2017-18.

According to standard practice, IOs at police stations or specialised units have to complete investigations within 30 days of a case being registered and prepare the chargesheet. Each IO, usually of the rank of subinspector or inspector, is burdened with over 50 cases at a time. They either have to compromise on the probe quality or delay it for some time to clear out backlogs.

Officers agree that the practice not only exhausts a policeman, but leads to extra hours of work, some stret ching for days. “In incidents like murders and robberies, the IO has to work for hours to gather evidence physically leaving out all other probes he is engaged in,“ said a police officer.

In the Nirbhaya incident of December 2012, the investigators contacted external agencies to collate evidence of dentures and blood samples within a month to prepare a watertight chargesheet, which led to a landmark judgment. As per the plan, 635 graduate constables have undergone specialised training to investigate petty cases. Around 1,640 constables and head constables have been promoted under the special grade scheme and trained to handle cases.

A total of 15,000 policemen have been trained in specialised courses, like scientific investigations, law of extradition and important case studies. DCPs and ACPs have also been trained to monitor the quality of the investigations.

However, cops say that investigators require specialised support from external agencies. Cops have proposed setting up of 17 posts of assistant legal advisors and permission to investigators to seek help from chartered accountants, cyber experts and engineers. The police commissioner can be empowered to employ specialists for each case.

Suicides, mental health issues/ 2017

Raj Shekhar Jha & Somreet Bhattacharya, Suicide by 3 cops in 15 days puts mental health issues in focus, October 10, 2017: The Times of India

Number of suicides among Delhi Police Personnel due to depression, 2017
From: The Times of India, October 10, 2017

Five policemen in Delhi have killed themselves in the past two months -three of them within a fortnight. In all, the count is nine in 2017

Most of them were on duty when they shot themselves with their service weapons. While many have left suicide notes, some deaths have remained a mystery . However, depression turns out to be the most common reason, hinting probably at an immediate need to address the mental health problems of Delhi Police personnel.

From family problems to ill health to tiff with seniors -cops are depressed due to various reasons. Seven-eight personnel committed suicide every year in the past five years and many of them had written about depression in their suicide notes.

The police reforms manual, prepared after a PIL was filed by former DGPs Prakash Singh and N K Singh, has also cited arbitrary and frequent transfers at the behest of influential third parties as a cause behind depression and demotivation.

Thippeswamy from Karnataka, who jumped before the railway tracks in January , had written, “I am sorry my dear family and friends. I was suffering from depression since very long time. I am unable to cope up with that. So I am taking my own life.“

Head constable Chand Pal, who had shot himself on the Supreme Court premises in January , was depressed due to family issues. He had alleged in the suicide note that his family members had grabbed his property . A marital discord and long hours of duty had further worsened his mental health.

Head constable Pramod Kumar, who killed himself at Delhi Cantt police station in August, was also in depression due to family problems. He said he couldn't keep his wife and children happy .

Har Bhagwan, another head constable who shot himself inside the beat box in Shahbad Dairy , was depressed over quarrels with his wife. He shot himself a few minutes after arguing with her over the phone. However, Delhi Police does not have any provision to deal with mental health of its employees. Cops said they were counselled and their grievances were addressed. The recent large-scale promotions are one of the initiatives taken to relieve and motivate many , they claimed.

Senior officials said they had taken steps to ensure that the personnel-on-theground didn't feel left out. “Whether it be the issue of leaves on anniversary or children's birthdays or going home once a week, all SHOs and DCPs have been asked to reach out to their subordinates and ensure that all help is extended to them. This will be discussed on priority in the next meeting,“ said Delhi Police spokesperson Dependra Pathak.

Delhi Police also conducts entertainment programmes. “There is also a police families welfare organisation to look after the education and health of the children and take steps to keep the policemen free from these worries,“ said Pathak. “We have directed the DCPs to conduct sampark sabhas every week to hear out grievances of junior colleagues.“ “Despite counselling, a person who has access to a weapon may end up using it easily . We are trying to address this as well,“ an officer said.

Police stations

Kirti Nagar: rated best in 2017

The Times of India, Feb 16 2017

Next time you are in or around Kirti Nagar in west Delhi and want to have coffee or need to use WiFi, you may want to head to the area police station. Strange as it may sound, it's true. Call it the outcome of its state-of-the-art infrastructure or friendly policemen, the Kirti Nagar station tops the list for facilities, functioning and environment in Delhi, a department survey has found.

After a long and exhaustive evaluation lasting a month, a Delhi Police committee, headed by special-commissionerrank officers, has selected Kirti Nagar police station as the best in the capital, sources say . On Thursday , the police station chief and other senior officers will be felicitated by MoS (home) at the 70th Raising Day celebrations. The results will be announced there.

The police station comes under the jurisdiction of P Kamraj, special commissioner (law and order) of south zone, and joint commissioner Dependra Pathak. The area DCP is Vijay Kumar and the station house officer (SHO) who has worked on the ground for bringing about change is Anil Sharma. From its reception to the lock-ups, it has set an example for other police stations in Delhi, which often come under criticism for being unfriendly .Soon after taking charge as police chief, Amulya Patnaik had made it clear that policemen needed to give priority to the people.

This police station allows free WiFi for all visitors who just have to register their ID at the front desk. It also has a cafeteria where eatables are available on subsidised rates for policemen as well as the public. Moreover, the station has a website of its own (http:www.pskirtinagar.com), which the area residents and businessmen can use to approach the police for help. People can download various verification forms (like those for tenants or helps) from the website, apart from lodging complaints with the area SHO.

The committee gave the station maximum points on patrolling, discipline and cle anliness. Purified water facility, clean washrooms and proper seating arrangements for visitors are other points where the Kirti Nagar station scored highly . Water and coffee dispensers, newspaper and security-related literature have also been placed in the visitors' room. Apart from an indoor games room, the police station has a badminton court for policemen as well.

2018: 50 stations on porta-cabins or rented buildings

Somreet Bhattacharya & Sidharth Bhardwaj, 50 police stations don’t have permanent address, January 18, 2018: The Times of India

Police Stations in Delhi, some facts, January 2018
From: Somreet Bhattacharya & Sidharth Bhardwaj, 50 police stations don’t have permanent address, January 18, 2018: The Times of India

See graphic:

Police Stations in Delhi, some facts, January 2018

Are Operating Out Of Rented Properties Or Porta-Cabins

In sharp contrast to Kirti Nagar police station, which figured among the top 10 facilities in the country, 50 police stations in the capital are operating out of either rented properties or porta-cabins on private land.

According to the Delhi Police data, while 13 police stations have been running from rented premises, the others are operating out of porta-cabins on private land. Most of these are located in Rohini, southwest, northeast and outer Delhi, while central and south Delhi has one each.

For all these stations, requests have been sent to the land-owning agencies for centrally located plots. In 2017, cops took possession of three plots from the government and sanctioned construction, while eight buildings were completed.

In Karawal Nagar, an adjoining plot has been rented to keep impounded vehicles but even that is getting full. The main stretch connecting the road is so damaged that underground sewer lines overflow during the monsoon, forcing cops to take longer routes even during emergencies.

Officers said all these stations were set up over the past decade as the colonies grew in an unplanned manner in these bordering areas. However, no space was allotted for a police station that requires 20,000 sq metres of land on average to work effectively.

At Kapashera police station in southwest Delhi, a visitors’ room has been set up in the compound and another in the backyard, using tin sheds. Officers said they recently expanded the compound to store impounded vehicles. The police vehicles are parked on the road.

The establishment at Chhawla is operated out of a rented plot that does not have enough space even for cops and seized vehicles are dumped on the road. Despite repeated requests, no action has been taken to allot it a permanent address.

“We have also been trying to get land from private agencies, but it is difficult to get such plots at government rates,” said a senior police officer. At some places, porta-cabins have been set up on private land, though these are extremely uncomfortable during summer.

Even IP Estate police station, which is at a stone’s throw from the police headquarters, operates out of a porta-cabin under a flyover and doesn’t have any parking facility. At Bindapur, cops are in a slightly better position as they will get a new building in February.

Cops at Mundka have another problem — due to lack of connectivity in the area, their landline doesn’t work, and they use a mobile phone to take emergency calls. Officers at the station said the landline had got disconnected long ago.

February 2018/ Punjabi Bagh, best police station

Punjabi Bagh best police stn, February 17, 2018: The Times of India

Punjabi Bagh was declared the best police station in Delhi, while Seelampur and K N Katju Marg secured second and third ranks in an audit conducted by Delhi Police. The results were declared in the presence of Union home minister Rajnath Singh during the 71st Raising Day parade organised at Kingsway Camp on Friday. The parameters were fixed in terms of service, people friendliness and infrastructure. While addressing Delhi Police officers during the event, Singh talked about minute details of policing. He asked Delhi Police to focus on smooth traffic flow alongside issuing challans and including people of Delhi in policing initiatives. He announced Rs 5 crore for the police martyr fund. The home minister also lauded Delhi Police for rescuing the five-year-old boy kidnapped from Shahdara.

April 2019/ Kashmere Gate police station declared best

Kashmere Gate police station declared best in city by home min, April 3, 2019: The Times of India

The ministry of home affairs has declared Kashmere Gate police station in north district as the best in the city. The unit achieved this feat in the annual ranking assessment of police stations for 2018. Police commissioner Amulya Patnaik awarded the Certificate of Excellence to inspector Devender Kumar, the station house officer of Kashmere Gate.

The home ministry selected the best station on various parameters, including maintenance and cleanliness of the building, working out of heinous crimes, data uploaded on the network, workout percentage of cases and complaints of 2018, and disposal of inquiry reports of various complaints received from watchdogs.

Parameters like feedback about police conduct, maintenance of records and case property, and facilities available for visitors were also looked at while deciding the best station.

The police station has WiFi, which can be accessed by visitors by registering their ID at the front desk. Apart from designated barracks, it has a fitness area for policemen. It also provides newspapers and legal literature in the visitors’ room. It boasts of a well-maintained register of medico-legal cases and statements of witnesses in calls, standing orders and circulars, as well as list of absconders and deserters.

During the survey, MHA officials called complainants at all police stations and asked them about the behaviour of policemen.

Women

Policing for women-related crimes

2012-20

Ariba Khaliq, December 15, 2020: The Times of India

Crimes against women in Delhi, 2012-20
From: Ariba Khaliq, December 15, 2020: The Times of India

NEW DELHI: It has been eight years since the horrific gang-rape and murder of a physiotherapy student — who came to be known as Nirbhaya — in south Delhi. 2020 is significant, for the year brought an end to the legal battle between the state and the convicts, who were hanged on March 20.

The Nirbhaya case, however, did not just result in the hanging of the rapist-murderers. It also changed the way Delhi Police dealt with crimes against women.

For one, registration of crime underwent a systemic change, leading to an increase in FIRs filed, from 706 in 2012 to a peak of 2,199 in 2015. This year was safer for women, with just 1,429 cases registered till October 31 against 1,884 last year in the same period.

Police commissioner S N Shrivastava is learnt to have emphasised a zero-tolerance policy in crimes against women, and joint commissioner- and deputy commissioner-rank officers oversee the investigation in these cases, pushing for timely arrests and filing of chargesheets.

Serving and retired police officers agree that the December 16, 2012 event was a turning point for law enforcement in the city. Delhi Police underwent an overhaul at the grass-roots level and took a slew of measures. “From dedicated anti-stalking cells to self-defence training for women and Himmat Plus app for easy access to police, Delhi Police gave top priority to women’s safety. No jurisdictional dispute is allowed to delay police response to a complaint,” an officer claimed.

There is a change in the police attitude towards the complainant as well. “Cops are now conscious of the manner in which they talk to a survivor, record the complaint or elicit information,” the officer said. “And besides attending to emergencies, staff handling the 10 lines of 1091 helpline also provides counselling.”

The case also led to the amendment of rape laws as recommended by the Justice JS Verma Commission set up after the Nirbhaya horror. After going through 80,000 submissions from the public, the commission accepted the need to punish rape, molestation and other sexual offences such as voyeurism with imprisonment up to seven years. Stalking or unwanted attempts to contact a person repeatedly was made punishable by a three-year jail sentence.

The amended laws made police duty-bound to assist rape survivors, starting with the immediate registration of an FIR on receiving a complaint. Now, women can also file online complaints. A slew of cases has already been registered based on email received by police. Women can also seek legal help from the police crisis cells. The growing awareness about legal remedies has resulted in more women reporting gender crimes.

As for stalking, cops said that all distress calls related to the crime are diverted to a special anti-stalking group. “The group follows up on the abusing number and deals with the aggressor in an effective manner. The cases are referred to the local police in real time,” the officer explained.

Besides deploying all-women PCR vans, male and female cops in plainclothes are also posted outside school and colleges when classes begin and end. There is special patrolling of the risk-prone routes taken by women returning from entertainment hubs and malls, and the civic agencies are informed about poorly lit roads.

2018: women DCPs in 4 of 13 districts

Rajshekhar Jha, In a first, 4 of 13 districts to have women DCPs, August 30, 2018: The Times of India

After reshuffle in Delhi Police, four out of the 13 districts in the capital will have women DCPs, a first for Delhi.

While the new deputy commissioner of police (DCP), Monika Bhardwaj, will be in charge of the west district, Aslam Khan, Meghna Yadav and Nupur Prasad are already heading northwest, Shahdara and north districts.

A 2009-batch officer, Khan is known to be a daredevil officer who doesn’t mince words. Coming from Rajsthan, she has never hesitated in taking on the corrupt. During her stint as the superintendent of police in the Andamans, Khan had exposed corruption in Port Blair Municipal Council and arrested at least eight government officials, including a traffic cop, for taking bribe.

Recently, Khan deposited half of her monthly salary in the account of the family of a truck driver from Jammu who was killed during a robbery bid in her jurisdiction. She also promised to bear all educational expenses of his children. Her husband, Pankaj Singh, is heading the east district in Delhi.

Bhardwaj, a 2009-batch officer from Rohtak in Haryana, has served in units like the police control room (PCR) and as additional DCP in west and southwest districts. The soft-spoken Bhardwaj is known for her honesty and righteousness. Her colleagues say she is closely involved in the operations and has a nose for minute details. Fairly active on Twitter, she regularly posts updates about her area.

Prasad, a JNU alumnus who comes from Bihar, is a 2007-batch officer who was the DCP of Shahdara district before taking charge of the north district. An officer who has closely worked with Prasad described her as having unshakeable integrity and composure. “She has unflinching support for subordinates and is a straight talker,” the officer said.

Yadav, from Delhi, is also a 2007-batch officer who will head a district for the first time. Known for being an action-oriented officer, she and her team, during her stint in Daman, had exposed an extortion racket involving IPS and other police officials of the department and arrested them. In 2012, she had made headlines after she wrote to the Delhi high court to protest against ill-treatment allegedly meted out to her by a judicial officer. Yadav’s husband, Seju Kuruvilla, is the DCP of outer district in Delhi. Police commissioner Amulya Patnaik has also posted officers like Esha Pandey as DCP in the special police unit for women and children, Varsha Sharma as DCP in the economic offences wing and Geeta Rani Verma as DCP in the traffic unit.

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-==1947-67: a history of the early years==
+In their political rhetoric, Congres, BJP and AAP all agree on doing away with the anomaly of Delhi Police being outside the administrative control of the capital’s elected government.
-[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=INDIA-AN-UNAUTHORISED-BIOGRAPHY-PEOPLE-EVENTS-POLICIES-15082017452044  INDIA: AN UNAUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY PEOPLE, EVENTS, POLICIES, Aug 15 2017: The Times of India]
+This lacuna in the jurisdiction of the national capital’s government is why Delhi is not considered a state despite having an assembly and a CM. The stalemate has remained unresolved despite different models available in other national capitals to balance democratic and security exigencies (see graphic).
-'''1 Words to live by'''
-Among the 20th century's stirring speeches is Nehru's `Tryst with Destiny' address to the Constituent Assembly at midnight, August 14, 1947, marking the transition to freedom.
+Unlike its counterparts in states, the Delhi assembly is barred by Article 239AA(3)(a) of the Constitution from making laws on three of the 66 state list entries. The three subjects that do not apply to the Delhi assembly — and therefore the Delhi government — are Entries 1, 2 and 18 dealing with public order, police and land.
-Laying out the vision for free India in 820 words, India's first PM talked of peace and service, foregrounding the themes of welfare and security in public discourse.
-'''2 The Constitution's architect'''
+The sensitivity of the situation can be gauged from the fact that even when the NDA government made an abortive bid in 2003 to confer statehood on Delhi, the Bill introduced by L K Advani steered clear of Entries 1 and 2 that deal with the city’s security.
-A radical thinker rarely in agreement with Gandhians and Congress, B R Ambedkar was still appointed law minister in Nehru's first cabinet and tasked with raising a framework for modern India. He chose to underpin it with the principles of equality and justice, placing emphasis on individual rights rather than traditions, communities, and ideology. The idea of a strong Centre within a federal system of governance were also underscored through his arguments.A rare photo of Dr Ambedkar after his conversion to Buddhism
+As a corollary, the Delhi Police commissioner reports to the Lt Governor, who in turn discharges functions relating to public order and police with Union home ministry’s concurrence. This means that when there is a law and order breakdown, the Delhi CM can only demand action against errant police officials, as Kejriwal did through his dharna. However grave the provocation, the CM cannot suspend or transfer any policeman.
-'''3 Bhasha battles'''
+Tthe peculiarity of Delhi is evident from the special exemption enjoyed by Lutyens Delhi, the seat of India’s government, from the constitutional obligation of having an elected municipality. In this prime area where Kejriwal held his dharna and which constitutes 3% of Delhi, the centre owns most of the land and 80% of buildings. Hence, the conventional pattern of representative local self-government was found unworkable. The New Delhi Municipal Council is essentially nominated by the Union government.
-The language question loomed large much before states were reorganised on linguistic lines.
+The larger context in which the Delhi government took to the streets was the failure across the country to implement the 2006 SC judgment mandating reforms to insulate police from illegal political interference and to make them accountable to independent watchdog bodies. While most states have disregarded the verdict, the Centre has not so far enacted a fresh law which would have introduced police reforms in Delhi. This is despite a model Bill proposed by the Soli Sorabjee Committee in 2006.
-From the 1930s, Periyar opposed Rajaji's efforts to popularise Hindi in Tamil Nadu (Madras Presidency), and later DMK turned the stir into a movement that swept them to power.
-'''4 India's heroes'''
+==Control of Delhi Police==
-Raj-Dilip-Dev: The troika that lorded over Bombay cinema and the nation's heart in the 1950s-60s. Dilip Kumar typified bottled, moody passion; Dev Anand was the urbane, debonair male; Raj Kapoor, the heart-of-gold, Chaplinesque hero in Nehruvian movies with songs (Awara hoon, Mera joota hai Japani) that became timeless anthems.
+===History: how Delhi city lost control over its police===
+''' Centre firmed its grip on cops with orders, not laws '''
-''DID YOU KNOW?''
+Abhinav Garg TNN
-Raj & Dilip acted together in Andaz. Dilip & Dev were lead performers in Insaniyat. Raj & Dev never shared the same screen space.
+[http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=TOINEW&BaseHref=CAP/2014/01/22&PageLabel=5&EntityId=Ar00500&ViewMode=HTML The Times of India]
-'''5 Song of the road'''
+[http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=TOINEW&BaseHref=CAP/2014/01/22&PageLabel=11&EntityId=Ar01103&ViewMode=HTML The Times of India]
-Pather Panchali, Satyajit Ray's lyrical debut feature (1955), put India on the map of world cinema and became the benchmark for every aspiring Indian auteur.
+Before 1947, Delhi Police was a part of Punjab Police
-'''6 Road maps'''
+In 1948, it got an ''' IGP ''' — D W Mehra
-India had 12 five-year plans for the economy since 1951.Although scrapped in favour of Niti Aayog's three-year action plans, the USSR-inspired plans are the reason one can drive from Kashmir to Kanyakumari without starving on the way.
+The post of ''' commissioner of police ''' was instituted in 1978. J N Chaturvedi was the first CP
-'''7 Rise of the Reds'''
+Earlier, the IGP reported to the Delhi chief secretary. Now, the CP reports to the lieutenant governor of National Capital Territory
-In 1957, the first-ever elected communist government was formed in Kerala with EMS becoming the chief minister. Invoking Article 356, PM Nehru dismissed the EMS govt in 1959, after it initiated radical land reforms and an overhaul of the education system.
+The reporting structure of Delhi Police is complex. MHA exercises overarching control But the Union home secretary and LG jointly supervise the force
-'''8 Temples of modern India'''
+Arvind Kejriwal is not the first chief minister of Delhi to demand the state’s control over its police. The Centre’s first move to take away much of the city’s influence over Delhi Police in 1996 drew noisy protests from the BJP government at the time. The Sheila Dikshit government was also vociferous in demanding control over the 85,000-strong force but meekly submitted to the Centre’s 2011 decision to deprive it of all remaining powers. TOI traces the history of this ‘takeover’ through a trail of documents accessed from the Delhi government.
-Massive hydel projects (Bhakra Nangal, Hirakud) built in the 1950s-60s became emblems of Nehruvian development.
+The papers show that until 2011, the lieutenant governor and the city government’s finance department had a say in police’s budgetary allocation. But in early 2011, the home ministry unilaterally attached police’s budget to its grants. It also blamed the state’s public works department (PWD) for dragging projects and ordered that a PSU like NBCC be awarded police-related construction work. The ministry took these decisions unilaterally through executive orders, without much discussion with the local government and the Centre.
-They set the stage for the Green Revolution but lost their sheen by the 1990s, and activists campaigned actively against them.Picture of Hirakud Dam on a Rs 100 note
+Early in 1996, the MHA had taken away Delhi Police’s budget from the city government and laid down modalities for its separate accounting. It reshuffled existing arrangements by making Delhi administration’s accountants—maintaining
+Delhi Police accounts—report to it. The state government responded with a note. Principal secretary (finance), P S Baidwan, pushed for keeping Delhi government’s stake in finalizing the police budget saying it is “essential to monitor the expenditure and also it will help in scrutinizing various proposals in their proper perspective”. He pointed out that Delhi Police was not created under powers conferred in the ‘union’ list of subjects, unlike CRPF or BSF, but owed its existence to a schedule in the ‘state’ list, and hence should not be controlled by MHA. The correct constitutional position, he said, would be “for MHA to provide funds to the LG to administer the reserved items within his delegated powers”.
-'''9 At war'''
+The note prompted then chief secretary P V Jaikrishnan to issue an office order in September 1996 forming a ‘standing finance committee’ with the police commissioner and the finance secretary as members for Delhi Police’s budget, maintaining the Delhi administration’s influence in police affairs. The matter was given a quiet burial with MHA acknowledging Jaikrishnan’s order.
-The Indian Army, its reputation burnished by WWII, was handed a morale-wrecking defeat in the Himalayas by China's PLA which came with overwhelming numbers and superior firepower.The Army's prestige was crushed, as was Nehru's spirit.
+For the next 15 years, the tenuous arrangement held firm, with the LG and Delhi government both having a say in police proposals, expenditure, modernization plans, etc. However, in July 2011 the MHA brought police’s pay and accounts under its chief controller of accounts. Delhi’s finance
+department again protested and sought a review but MHA succeeded in gaining full control. In a meeting chaired by then joint secretary (UT) K K Pathak, the ministry conveyed to the state government its decision to take control of the police budget.
-'''10 Peasants, workers unite'''
+By April 2012, the MHA ended Delhi government’s remaining influence. The state would no longer approve police modernization projects nor sanction money for them. Instead, MHA would be the sole arbiter for technical and administrative approvals.
-The summer of '67 uprising by peasants and tea garden workers in the picture-postcard north Bengal village of Naxalbari created the template for armed, radical Left movements that continue to thrive in swathes of India Ignored.Busts of Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Charu Mazumdar in Naxalbari
+Delhi’s cabinet minister Manish Sisodia accused the Centre of systematically conspiring to take full control of Delhi Police in the past 2-3 years. “Despite being included in the state list, Delhi Police has been taken over by MHA. For this, an amendment in the Constitution of India is required but it has been effected by executive orders by joint secretary-level officers. The illegality was possible because there were Congres governments at the Centre and in Delhi. We demand a new Delhi Police Act to place police under the state government’s full control,”
-==1947-64: the building of institutions ==
+=Language used in FIRs=
-===I===
+==HC questions continued use of Urdu, Persian words==
-[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Why-Indias-Constitution-remains-a-guiding-light-for-15082017454037  Dipankar Gupta, Why India's Constitution remains a guiding light for the liberal world, August 15, 2017: The Times of India]
+[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F08%2F08&entity=Ar01014&sk=1A4E0095&mode=text  August 8, 2019: ''The Times of India'']
-'''See graphic''':''Hectic campaigning in Delhi before the first general election'' and ''The 1950s Balance Sheet''
+HC asks why cops still use Urdu, Persian words
-''A decade of nation-building under Jawaharlal Nehru provided an industrial base, a pool of scientific talent, and a legal frame for wide swathe of reforms''
+New Delhi:
-The first two decades after Independence belonged to Jawaharlal Nehru. He epito mised India's gigantic effort to become modern, self-re liant and remain together. There were many detractors of these efforts for they were sure that a country so divided by language and religion, racked by ancient prejudices and as poor as some of the poorest in the world, had no chance to survive.
+Why is Delhi Police still using Persian and Urdu words while registering FIR, Delhi high court sought to know on Wednesday. It asked Delhi Police commissioner to explain why “high sounding and bombastic” words in these languages are still in use when it becomes difficult for a common person to understand.
-Yet, miraculously, India survived and slowly fears of its disintegration reced slowly fears of its disintegration receded. It is not as if there were no anxious moments. Maharashtra wanted a state of its own and, before it, so did the Telu gu speaking people of the erstwhile state of Madras.The government dithered on this in the fear that this was the beginning of the dreaded Balkanisation threat that they were warned against.
+A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar pointed out that FIR should ideally be in the words of the complainant who has come with a grievance and too much flowery language, the meaning of which has to be discerned from a dictionary, ought not to be used.
-However, as the States Reorganisa tion Commission finally resolved these demands it became clear that neither the newly-formed Andhra Pradesh, nor Maharashtra had any intention of separating from India. The ethos of the National Movement was stronger than what some of their leaders gave it credit for. What is more, it established the legitimacy of a state being governed in its own language -a provision that Sri Lanka, for example, failed to provide and suffered as a consequence.
+“Too much flowery language should not be used. FIR should be in the words of the complainant. Police is there for public at large and not just for persons with doctorate degree in Urdu or Persian. Simple language should be used, instead of high sounding words. People have to know what is written. It is applicable to use of English also. Don’t use bombastic language,” the bench remarked, while seeking the stand of the police chief on the matter.
-What helped resolve many of these early difficulties was the fact that India had crafted a Constitution which became ef fective in 1950 and is regarded, even today , as one of the leading liberal documents of the democratic world. It established basic rights and liberties and also de-legitimised some of the ancient practices among Hindus which were unfair to women and debased many on the basis of caste.
+It directed the police commissioner to file an affidavit explaining why Urdu or Persian words are still in use when complainants approaching the cops mostly use simple language to narrate their ordeal. The court listed the matter for November 25.
-This was a social revolution at one stroke. Doubtless, there were many leading figures who were by Nehru's side in this endeavour, Dr Ambedkar, principally , but it was Nehru's political acumen and legislative skills that eventually saw these provisions as law. He simultaneously moved against landlordism and this invited a strong backlash from entrenched quarters, but Nehru won the day .
+Delhi high court was hearing a PIL, by advocate Vishalakshi Goel, seeking directions to Delhi Police not to use Urdu and Persian words in FIRs, arguing that it becomes difficult for a normal citizen to understand or follow what the police have done with their complaint in case of a crime having occurred.
-There were other irons in the fire as well. Nehru initiated an entirely innovative economic policy that was clearly not communist or blatantly capitalist. He believed that a mixed economy was the best way for India to overcome the initial difficulties of becoming a modern industrial state.
+Delhi government additional standing counsel Naushad Ahmed Khan, appearing for the police, said that Urdu and Persian words used in FIRs can be understood by making a little effort. He also said that the words are used when transferring the FIR to higher authorities.
-He pushed for a strong public sector which would provide steel, energy and heavy equipment and establish the basis for sustained economic entrepreneurship in the years to come. Though the public sector is in much disrepute today, it can hardly be doubted that the infrastructural impetus that Nehru started allowed for a modern economy to develop.
+In a separate PIL raising similar concerns, Delhi Police had, a few years ago, defended the usage of words such as zaabta (law), majroob (injured), imroz (today), etc, arguing that due to long and continuous usage in police documents, the public has become familiar with these.
-All economies need knowledge, high ly skilled and technical at that, to keep them humming. There is little doubt that if India can boast of being a hub in today's information technology sector, or of producing world-class engineers and of a high-powered scientific body, it is Nehru who deserves the credit. He had the wisdom and foresight to set up the Indian Institute of Science, the IITs, the AIIMS and the IIMs, to name a few.
+Delhi Police had also argued that if it switched to Hindi, it would create fresh difficulties for the force and the layman.
-Alongside, in the field of culture, the Lalit Kala Akademi and Sangeet Kala Akademi and the Film and Television Institute of India were also established at his insistence. It was an all-out, four square thrust to bring India into the modern world of knowledge, sciences and the arts. Such was the vision of the man.
+===2019===
+[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F11%2F27&entity=Ar00510&sk=4292934A&mode=text  Aamir Khan2, Nov 27, 2019: ''The Times of India'']
-In foreign policy, Nehru's contribution was not nearly as singular and suf fered several setbacks, some of them during his lifetime. Both the USSR and the US were suspicious of the Non-Aligned Movement. The former thought we were being manipulated by the communists and Stalin believed that this was just a thinly disguised US plot. The India-China War of 1962 robbed all of the starch in the Non-Aligned Movement and the India-China 1952 Panchsheel Policy .
+[[File: Urdu, Persian words in FIRs.jpg|Urdu, Persian words in FIRs <br/> From: [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F11%2F27&entity=Ar00510&sk=4292934A&mode=text  Aamir Khan2, Nov 27, 2019: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
-When Nehru died, he was a vastly disappointed man not just because his personal charisma had suffered a massive erosion with the 1962 China War, but also because his hopes that the public sector would man the commanding heights of the economy was not getting anywhere fast.
+FIRs should be in the simplest language possible, Delhi high court has said while directing Delhi Police to present 100 FIRs from different police stations in the national capital to see if cops were refraining from using “complicated” Urdu and Persian words.
-But, by then India was a stable, democratic republic and the fear that it would collapse was belied. Nehru showed his critics that those who ran the government were not people of straw, as often accused. Truly, this was nation building as good as one can get, for which reason that period can justifiably be called the Nehruvian years.
+A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar have passed the direction pursuant to a circular issued by the DCP (legal cell), Delhi Police, asking all police officers to refrain from using “archaic Urdu/Persian” words. “Urdu/Persian words are being used mechanically by cops without knowing the meaning and proper application of mind,” the bench noted.
+The court stressed that there was no need for police to show their knowledge of Urdu and Persian words.
-===II===
+Delhi Police’s list contained 383 terms in Urdu or Persian with their translation in Hindi and English. Referring to the list, the court emphasised that public, at large, may not be able to understand all these Urdu or Persian words. As a result, it asked for the list to be given along with the FIR to a person seeking the FIR copy. The list, it added, may not be “exhaustive” as there can be other similar Urdu and Persian words being used in FIRs which are not mentioned in it. “The practice of using these words in the FIR ought to be stopped by police,” the bench directed.
-[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=What-todays-institutions-can-learn-from-the-best-15082017455021  Bibek Debroy, What today's institutions can learn from the best of Sixties, August 15, 2017: The Times of India]
+Referring to the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, the bench said FIR was the “most vital document” prepared by police for it set the process of criminal justice in motion.
-'''See graphic''':''The 1960s Balance Sheet''
+“In fact the copy of the FIR is required to be sent to the magistrate immediately as it is an immediate version of the narration of the whole offence. In court, the FIR is required to be read time and again, hence, it should be in a simple language or it should be in the language of a person who has approached police to lodge an FIR,” the judges noted.
-[[File: The 1960s Balance Sheet.jpg|The 1960s Balance Sheet; [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=What-todays-institutions-can-learn-from-the-best-15082017455021  Bibek Debroy, What today's institutions can learn from the best of Sixties, August 15, 2017: The Times of India]|frame|500px]]
-The building of a great edifice needs a head who enjoys intellectual, administrative and financial freedom. And he, or she, must also be young enough to have the time to succeed
+A PIL had challenged the usage of Urdu or Persian words in FIRs on the ground of inconvenience for general public. Pursuant to a court order on August 7, 2019, Delhi Police issued a circular to its officers to “evade using archaic Urdu/Persian words” and come out with the list. High court now wants to know if the circular is being followed by subordinate officers in “letter and spirit”. It said, “Minimum 100 copies of FIRs should be presented before the court on the next date of hearing.”
-In social sciences, there is a rich literature on institutions, institu tional behaviour and the way insti tutions shape society, especially for relatively formal institutions like the legislature, executive and judiciary, civil society, media, business, science, technology, education and health. In debates about the legacy of British colonial rule in India, institutions figure. The pride of India's democracy isn't about elections alone, it is also about these institutions.
-For the Union government, we have been told there are at least 679 autonomous bodies. These, too, belong to the category “institution“. There are others at the state level, and we mustn't forget institutions associ ated with local bodies. When we talk about “institutionbuilding“, more often than not we have in mind the Union government, less so the state and local governments.Nor do we have in mind institutions that evolve independent of govern ment, though given government's visible and invisible presence, both malign and benign, no institution in the ecosystem can afford to completely ignore government.
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-Ask yourself this: Why is it important for any event organised by such an institution to have government representation at inaugural or valedictory functions?
+=Law and order=
-Conceptually , there can be three kinds of institutions -those part of government or extended government, those ostensibly autonomous (but largely , if not entirely, funded by government), and those independent. Let's take ostensibly autonomous ones first. Even if you cannot name all 679, and this is irrespective of specific legislation under which they were set up, name a few prominent institutions, ones that, in your view, have left an imprint.
+==New Delhi Law and order Reserve Force/ 2018==
+[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F06%2F20&entity=Ar01315&sk=5BA092BD&mode=text  Sidharth Bhardwaj, Elite team to ward off trouble during protests, June 20, 2018: ''The Times of India'']
-I am reasonably certain the antecedents of those prominent post-Independence institutions go back to the 1950s and 1960s, not beyond, not yet. What explains this vintage, and what has gone wrong since then? Some principles should be truisms, but aren't always appreciated. First, every individual doesn't have it in him or her to build an institution. In the narrow economics domain, there have been few like V K R V Rao.
+[[File: The New Delhi Law and order Reserve Force.jpg|The New Delhi Law and order Reserve Force <br/> From: [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F06%2F20&entity=Ar01315&sk=5BA092BD&mode=text  Sidharth Bhardwaj, Elite team to ward off trouble during protests, June 20, 2018: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
-A good academic resume doesn't necessarily make for a good institution-builder. That requires a different skill set. Second, those who select people to head institutions must possess the foresight to recognise those skill sets and recognise them sufficiently early. Back then, in that different day and age when gerontocracy and seniority didn't determine rules, peo ple were chosen as heads of institutions in their 40s, even early 40s. Notwithstanding increases in life expectancy , a person chosen as head at 58 has little time to build. Nor does that person have a stake in the future of the institution. Third, and this follows from the second, the person chosen must be given freedom, intellectual, administrative and financial, and a sufficiently long tenure.
+''Force Pressed Into Action For First Time During AAP Stir''
-The collapse of the third principle is almost certainly the main reason why the vintages of successful institutions are the 1950s and 1960s. Within government and extended government, the '70s was the decade when institutions, the bureaucracy and the judiciary had to be “committed“.
+Taking a cue from police forces of western countries, Delhi Police has created a special team for crowd control. The New Delhi Law and Order Reserve Force was tested for the first time after its recent formation during the protest by Aam Aadmi Party.
-The steel frame rusted and the judiciary was also corroded. When there was supersession (think of the judiciary), it was based on commitment, not merit. Add to that the carrot of postretirement sinecures. For the steel frame, which is part of government, dissent has a limited role and is perforce constrained. However, for the broader ecosystem of autonomous institutions, dissent is desirable. Dissent and debate are part of democracy's discourse and require conscious nurturing for institutions to thrive and prosper. This brings me to the last principle, the lack of which, I think has been the bane.Fourth, the political leadership (there is no need to use the word government any more) has to possess confidence, an appetite for risk-taking, and have democracy in its DNA.
+Young policemen from different stations in the capital have been posted to the new unit to act when law and order deteriorates during demonstrations, said Madhur Verma, DCP (New Delhi). The creation of such a special unit was necessitated by the almost daily protests in Lutyens' Delhi, which houses important government buildings and important institutions.
-If you choose someone young, there is a risk you take. If you allow intellectual ferment and debate, there is a risk you take. True, the First Amendment to the Constitution curbed absolute freedom of speech and expression as early as 1951.
+“Organisations frequently hold protests without acquiring permissions from us,” observed a police officer. “In many cases, the crowd goes out of control and enter government offices and public institutions such as Vigyan Bhawan and Shastri Bhawan.” He said that the crowd control unit will work to deter people from resorting to hooliganism.
-Nevertheless, curbing is not identical to control. Otherwise, like the Model T, there can be numerous institutions, but their colour will be identical.
+Till now the practice was to call in reserves from all police stations to implement mob control measures. After deciding to create a permanent team for the purpose, such personnel were given special courses and training in anti-rioting and crowd management operations. So far, around 100 policemen aged 25-35 have been inducted into the new unit, which is based in the New Delhi district lines.
-==1969-1975==
+Each member, deployed on a six-month deputation, will be equipped with lightweight body armour, technical gear and canes. “These items were specially procured for the Law and Order Force. They have been kept light in consideration of the long duration the cops might have be at their posts,” said an officer, exuding optimism that the mere presence of a team of young cops with body armour and canes will act as a deterrence against hooliganism.
-[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=INDIA-AN-UNAUTHORISED-BIOGRAPHY-PEOPLE-EVENTS-POLICIES-15082017454039  INDIA: AN UNAUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY PEOPLE, EVENTS, POLICIES, August 15, 2017: The Times of India]
-'''See graphic:'''
+For easy mobility, the cops have been given motorcycles and buses with GPS system so their location can be monitored in real time by the control room team. The tests have revealed that the unit can reach any spot in Lutyens’ Delhi perimeter in five to eight minutes.
-''The 1970s Balance Sheet''
+The standard operating procedure requires any police station experiencing deterioration in law and order to make a request for the special unit, which will be directed then to help the local police. Senior officers said they were contemplating an increase in the reserve force’s troop strength. A proposal to create similar units for other areas of the capital is also being considered.
-[[File: The 1970s Balance Sheet.jpg|The 1970s Balance Sheet; [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Gallery.aspx?id=15_08_2017_456_019_014&type=P&artUrl=Freedom-poetry-rebellion-and-music-when-we-lived-15082017456019&eid=31808 The Times of India], August 15, 2017|frame|500px]]
+==Law and order zones==
+===Delhi===
+====2016: Delhi has 2 law and order zones under 3 officers====
-'''11 Rajdhani on track'''
+[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=LAW-ORDER-Capital-change-3-bosses-for-two-04022016004014 ''The Times of India''], Feb 04 2016
+[[File: The zones that Delhi was divided into for policing purposes in 2016.jpg| The zones that Delhi was divided into for policing purposes in 2016; Graphic courtesy: [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=LAW-ORDER-Capital-change-3-bosses-for-two-04022016004014 ''The Times of India''], Feb 04 2016|frame|500px]]
-India's first superfast, fully air-conditioned train, Rajdhani Express, charged out of New Delhi in 1969, and musafirs developed a taste for complimentary meals. Train travel was no longer only about getting somewhere; it was also about the journey.
+Rajshekhar Jha
-'''12 Cricket wins abroad'''
+Call it a way to improve enforcement in Delhi or a clever manoeuvre by outgoing Delhi police commissioner B S Bassi, but Delhi has now been divided into two law and order zones under the stewardship of three officers. Two officers of special commissioner rank will have charge of each area and both will report to a third special commissioner, who will, therefore, be the overall law and order chief of the capital.
+Bassi, who has less than a month till superannuation, gave details of the new arrangement on Wednesday after a two-hour meeting with the officers selected for the new roles. Sources said that S N Shrivastava and Amulya Patnaik, both of them special commissioners (ADG scale), were informed about their new responsibilities. They will report to Deepak Mishra, special commissioner (DG scale), a 1984-batch officer.
-Two series Test wins abroad in 1971 by captain Ajit Wadekar's merry men, against the formidable Sobers-led West Indies (1-0) and the respectable Illingworth-managed England (1-0), raised the profile of cricket in India like never before.
+Shrivastava will be re sponsible for the north zone, which will include central range (central and north districts), northern range (north-west and outer districts) and eastern range (east and north-east districts). Patnaik will oversee law and order in the south zone, comprising south-eastern range (south and southeast districts), south-western range (west and south-west districts) and New Delhi range (New Delhi district and railways). The law and order unit till date had Mishra at the top, assisted by the joint commissioner of the various ranges.
-'''13 Tiger, tiger burning bright'''
+Both Shrivastava and Patnaik have a reputation for being no-nonsense officers. The former headed the anti-terror unit of the Delhi Police (special cell) for close to three years until his transfer to another unit recently . The latter led the vigilance unit and had infused new life into the virtually dead wing of Delhi Police.
-Project Tiger India's flagship conservation project began in 1973 when tigers were in decline, their number guesstimated at 1,800.
+However, a top officer said this was a “temporary arrangement“ and likely to change once the incoming police chief settles down. While admitting the step could ensure better handling of the law and order in the capital, many senior officers also said the decision appeared more to be Bassi's efforts to contain inter-force politics. “That this is a please-all decision is evident from the timing, else why wasn't this done much earlier?“ an officer commented.
-Despite setbacks that saw their number drop to 1,411 in 2006, the project has achieved a modest turnaround.
+Bassi had earlier triggered resentment among the top echelons when he created the post of “senior“ special commissioners to accommodate Dharmendra Kumar, Vimla Mehra and Mishra. Before the lieutenant-governor struck down the “promotions“, Kumar had been given charge of important units like special cell and crime branch, apart from traffic. Mishra was put in charge of law and order, vigilance, armed police and recruitment. The other special commissioners had been asked to report to the trio.
-'''14 Military might'''
+====July 2017: Women from north-east recruited for security in Delhi====
+[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/41-ne-women-commandos-to-man-frontline-defences-in-city/articleshow/59870596.cms  Raj Shekhar, 41 NE women commandos to man frontline defences in Delhi , Aug 2, 2017: The Times of India]
-The only decisive war India ever fought, 1971 saw India flex both military and diplomatic muscle successfully and establish itself as a regional power. Bangladesh was born as was the icon named Indira.
+''' HIGHLIGHTS '''
+The women commandos from Northeast would helm the security detail at Red Fort and India Gate
+Inducted into the force as constables, they have already undergone a rigorous 10-month police training
-'''15 Going nuclear'''
-India joined the nuclear club with an underground explosion in Pokhran, Rajasthan, on May 18, 1974. Codenamed Smiling Buddha, the tests caused global consternation, but it upgraded India's status as a military power. Pokhran II happened in May 1998.
+Undergoing training by the best in the business, these 41 women commandos from Northeast may be second to none when it comes to handling a terror strike or a hostage situation. This Independence Day, these elite women cops would helm the security detail at Red Fort and India Gate, amid intelligence inputs of women Fidayeen planning to target the capital.
-''''16 Land of milk (not honey)'''
+Right now, these women are in the middle of a four-month advance commando training at Jharoda Kalan. Inducted into the force as constables, they have already undergone a rigorous 10-month police training, which they completed with exceptionally good grades. The new commando force is the brainchild of police commissioner Amulya Patnaik.
-India's journey to become the world's leading milk producer parallels the life of Verghese Kurien, a mechanical engineer-turned-dairy-expert. He created a grid of milk cooperatives that remains the prototype for agri initiatives.
+According to special commissioner Dependra Pathak, these commandos will be posted with different units, including Parakram and SWAT. "Many of them will be posted in the anti-terror Parakram vans. As of now, there are 10 such vans and each of them has a women commando. Fifteen more vans will be inducted soon and these commandos will be deployed there too," he added.
-'''17 Green is the colour of revolution'''
+An ACP-rank officer, O P Sharma, is heading the training programme. To cross the language barrier, an instructor from the Northeast has been roped in. "These policemen are extremely professional and dedicated towards their training. They can spring from deep sleep to action — fully armed — within a minute of an alarm being sounded. There is an amazing mix of cultures on display at the academy at present," said Sharma.
-From the 1960s, the government promoted use of high-yield seeds, chemical fertilisers and irrigation to improve foodgrain production and achieve self-sufficiency in food.
+The training includes advanced hand-to-hand combat moves from Krav Maga, a form of martial art developed by the Israeli army. Most of these women had joined Delhi Police in 2016. Pressed into action, they can carry out reconnaissance, design maps and begin an assault within 10 minutes of reaching a spot. Each "hit-team" consists of a team leader, two recce officers, a communication specialist, two sharpshooters and a medic.
-'''18 Darkest days of democracy'''
+Each commando is armed with an AK-47 assault rifle, or an MP5 submachine gun, with at least four 30-round magazines, a Glock 17 or Glock 26 pistol, hand grenades, a wireless set, a 20-metre nylon rope, a pencil torch, a bulletproof helmet (patka for Sikhs), bulletproof jacket, flame torch, cutter and a commando dagger. Special knee and elbow pads are also worn for protection during stealth attacks. The commandos also learn warfare techniques, such as identifying improvised explosive devices.
-To browbeat the Opposition, Indira Gandhi declared the Emergency on June 25, 1975. Opposition leaders were jailed, civil liberties curbed, the press gagged and many forcibly sterilised in the next 21 months. In the election that followed the Congress was routed and the Janata Party swept to power.
+These commandos are best equipped to handle crises in the capital as their training and combat skills are Delhi-centric — from climbing multi-storey buildings within seconds to rescuing hostages from a room located in the core of a hotel, or a DTC bus or the Metro.
-'''19 Chipko movement'''
+=Lawyers vs. the Police=
+==1988-2019==
+[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F11%2F03&entity=Ar00606&sk=82AF1D2E&mode=text  Abhinav Garg, Nov 3, 2019: ''The Times of India'']
-The act of 27 Garhwali women hugging trees to stop them from being felled in 1974 became a stencil for non-violent resistance for people's control over natural resources.
+[[File: Lawyers vs. the Delhi Police, 2014-17.jpg| Lawyers vs. the Delhi Police, 2014-17 <br/> From: [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F11%2F03&entity=Ar00606&sk=82AF1D2E&mode=text  Abhinav Garg, Nov 3, 2019: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
-Led by Sunderlal Bahuguna, the Chipko movement inspired several environmental movements, including the Narmada anti-dam agitation.
-==The 1980s==
+Images and videos of policemen chasing lawyers and vehicles burning in a court complex recalled a similar incident over three decades ago. The face-off at Tis Hazari is also a reminder that not much has changed in the relations between the men in uniform and those donning black robes since the time they first clashed in 1988.
-[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=INDIA-AN-UNAUTHORISED-BIOGRAPHY-PEOPLE-EVENTS-POLICIES-15082017455031  INDIA: AN UNAUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY PEOPLE, EVENTS, POLICIES, August 15, 2017: The Times of India]
-'''See graphics:'''
+That day, Kiran Bedi, India’s first woman IPS officer and at the time a young deputy commissioner of police, had a showdown with the capital’s lawyers who had brought the courts to a halt for a prolonged period. Much like in Saturday’s case, the confrontation in 1988 had begun with a trivial argument over parking, the trigger being the arrest of the lawyer for alleged theft and of him being handcuffed.
-''Change in preference of vehicle from scooters to motorcycles, 1998-99''
+What could have easily been defused through the intervention of the police brass and the bar association turned instead into a full blown fight, in which police cane-charged the lawyers, leaving many of them injured. This infamous episode led to one of the longest strikes in the history of the Delhi Bar Association.
-''The 1980s Balance Sheet''
+Till date, both sides have justified their actions of that day, though the Justice D P Wadhwa Committee indicted Delhi Police and Bedi in particular even as the latter maintained the lawyers had run amok, thus inviting a strong response.
-[[File: Change in preference of vehicle from scooters to motorcycles, 1998-99.jpg|Change in preference of vehicle from scooters to motorcycles, 1998-99; [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=INDIA-AN-UNAUTHORISED-BIOGRAPHY-PEOPLE-EVENTS-POLICIES-15082017455031  INDIA: AN UNAUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY PEOPLE, EVENTS, POLICIES, August 15, 2017: The Times of India]|frame|500px]]
+Hours after the clash, Delhi high court Chief Justice D N Patel convened a meeting of the Administrative Committee comprising seven top judges. Sources told TOI that Delhi’s additional chief secretary and the joint commissioner of Delhi Police of the area concerned were also summoned to the court. Justice Patel is learnt to have conveyed his concern over the security of lawyers and litigants in the court complex, Police apparently informed him that FIRs had been filed and investigation was under way.
-[[File: The 1980s Balance Sheet.jpg|The 1980s Balance Sheet; [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Gallery.aspx?id=15_08_2017_457_007_015&type=P&artUrl=How-the-dark-clouds-of-Eighties-paved-way-15082017457007&eid=31808 The Times of India], August 2017|frame|500px]]
+The clashes indicate a deeper flaw and absence of a mechanism that would allow both sides to calm their members. In 2016, several lawyers ran riot in Patiala House Courts assaulting JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar and journalists in sight of police. The same year a group of lawyers clashed with policemen in the Rohini court after an advocate was detained for refusing to be frisked while entering the court complex. In 2017, an SHO was allegedly assaulted by a lawyer in the Karkardooma court in relation to the latter’s earlier arrest.
+While senior police officers say the men on the spot are best positioned to take a call in such cases, lawyers maintain that the police brass has failed to rein in rogue elements. Perhaps it needs a decisive intervention of the bar and the bench to prevent recurrence of violence.
-'''20 The power of 100cc'''
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-The dream of owning a vehicle became a reality for many in 1980 when manufacture of 100cc motorcycles was allowed. Riding on Japanese technology, affordable bikes flooded the market and changed commuting experience.
+=Naib courts=
+==HC: Reshuffle naib courts every 3 years==
-'''21 Friends, family, VCR'''
+[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=HC-tells-police-to-reshuffle-naib-courts-every-10072017006024 Abhinav Garg|HC tells police to reshuffle naib courts every 3 yrs|Jul 10 2017 : The Times of India (Delhi)]
-Binge-watching predates the internet. It dawned in the 1980s with VCRs (video cassette recorder) and tapes. Movie buffs, bored of DD's Sunday evening films, had the option of renting a VCR and three tapes from the neighbourhood `parlour' for an all-nighter. It was always a social event with friends and immediate neighbours invited.
+HC tells police to reshuffle naib courts every 3 yrs
-'''22 When Punjab bled'''
-Through the 1980s and early 1990s Punjab was a dangerous place where terror was cloaked in religion. The militants wanted Khalistan, a separate country for Sikhs. Their chief, Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, was killed in Operation Blue Star (1984). Estimated casualties of civilians, terrorists and security forces between 1981 and 1992 were more than 21,000
-'''23 Southern star power'''
-NTR chose mythological roles while MGR donned a Robin Hood avatar.
-NTR was a novice; MGR was an Annadurai admirer. Both became CMs. Neither cared for inner-party democracy; both swore by populist schemes.
-Their cultivation of attire and manner and their autocratic style continue to inspire others.
-'''24 Cricket, live on TV'''
-India's most memorable sporting triumphs were heard on radio, seldom seen. But the unlikely 1983 triumph of Kapil's Devils over domineering Windies was watched live on TV and, later, on VCRs, across the country taking cricket to small-town and mofussil India like never before.
-'''25 Bhopal gas tragedy'''
-On the night of December 3-4, 1984, the world's worst industrial disaster killed 20,000 and injured 5.5 lakh people over the years. It forever changed the way industrial safety, compensation and litigation worked the world over.
-'''26 OK, Tada, bye-bye'''
-Tada was India's first anti-terrorism law (1985).
-Some 76,000 people were arrested under Tada, 35% of the cases were brought to trial, and only 2% were convicted. Allowed to lapse in 1995 due to rampant misuse, it became the template for subsequent draconian laws like Pota (2002-04) and the amended Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
-'''27 Scam & scandal'''
-Bofors, the Swedish gun, has served India well against enemies, but its first casualty was the credibility of the Rajiv Gandhi government. Allegations of kickbacks Rs 64 crore -stuck, and corruption became an election plank in the 1989 elections that Rajiv's Congress party lost. While India entered a long coalition era, `scam' and `scandal' became part of our street lexicon.
-'''28 Assassination and after'''
-The storming of Sikhism's holiest shrine, Harmandir Sahib, during Operation Blue Star galled the Sikhs, and just five months later, on October 31, 1984, PM Indira Gandhi's Sikh bodyguards Satwant Singh and Beant Singh shot her from point-blank range at her New Delhi residence. After that, Sikhs were targeted by mobs across northern states and thousands were killed.
-'''29 People's car arrives'''
-Conceived by Sanjay Gandhi to rival the Ambassador and Fiat, Maruti added wheels to the middle-class dream in the 1980s. Powered by an 800cc engine, it became the people's car that everyone aspired for. The Indo-Japanese company still commands over 50% of marketshare in automobiles.
-WAS WHEN A COMPANY NAMED SURYA RAM MARUTI TECHNICAL SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED (MTSPL) WAS STARTED TO PROVIDE TECHNICAL KNOW HOW FOR THE DESIGN, MANUFACTURE AND ASSEMBLY OF “A WHOLLY INDIGENOUS MOTOR CAR“
-==The 1980s- early 1990s==
-[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=INDIA-AN-UNAUTHORISED-BIOGRAPHY-PEOPLE-EVENTS-POLICIES-15082017456031  INDIA: AN UNAUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY PEOPLE, EVENTS, POLICIES, August 15, 2017: The Times of India]
-'''30 BINARY BOOST'''
-Barring specialists in scientific institutions, computers meant little to anyone in the early '80s. But Rajiv Gan dhi, pilot by training, stressed on tech-telecom missions to give engineering R&D and education a boost in the midst of a US embargo. India's IT majors and the start up ecosystem were catalysed in this soup.
-'''31 Babri Masjid is pulled down'''
-The Ramjanmabhoomi movement led by the Hindutva brigade climaxed with the demolition of a medieval mosque in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992.
-Riots followed, the worst being in India's commercial heart Mumbai. For some, the event challenged the idea of Nehru's India.
-'''32 LOAN AGAINST GOLD'''
-Through the second half of the 1980's, India battled a foreign currency shortage. By the end of the decade, it was on the verge of defaulting on payments for imports: it had just enough foreign exchange to cover three weeks of imports. The situation forced RBI to raise a loan of $405 million by pledging its gold reserves and physically transferring it to London. The news focused attention on the crisis in the Indian economy.
-'''33 REAL ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE'''
-In the backdrop of an economic crisis, India was reinvented with finance minister Manmohan Singh's milestone budget (PM PV Narasimha Rao, 1991) and P Chidambaram's dream budget (PM HD Deve Gowda, 1997) to open up new areas for private sector participation and reduce bureaucratic controls on them. It led to India's most economically vibrant period with an eightfold increase over 25 years in the economy's size and catalysed social change.
-'''34 Big Bull Mehta'''
-Harshad Mehta was the original `Big Bull', whose flashy lifestyle in pre-billionaire India attracted many to the stock market in search of easy money. Mehta's scam in the 1990s exposed loopholes in the system and expedited the move to transform Sebi into a statutory body. Was finally caught for evasion of income tax
-'''35 MUMBAI ROCKED'''
-A chain of explosions rocked Mumbai in the aftermath of the Babri demolition, set off by a gang executing orders from India's Most Wanted, Dawood Ibrahim.
-The death toll was 257 and 713 were injured. The attack, the deadliest on an Indian city, left a deep impact on Mumbai's psyche and led to an unending criminal trial.
-'''36 Enter the suicide bomber'''
-Rajiv Gandhi as PM tried to stem ethnic conflicts, but mediation in Sri Lanka and sending troops to enforce peace turned the LTTE against him. A brutal, secessionist outfit which until then had used Tamil Nadu as a safe haven, it put a suicide bomber at a rally he addressed. Congress did rebound, but a vacuum remained.
-'''37 CABLE, CNN AND SOAP OPERAS'''
-Cable TV broke Doordarshan's monopoly of eyeballs in the early '90s when private channels brought Bold and Beautiful, WWF, CNN (first Gulf war) and other emblems of Americana to our homes. The idea of entertainment transformed, spawning lifestyle and lingo shifts. Now, with data becoming cheap, TV viewing seems set for another tectonic shift.
-'''38 INDIA GETS MANDALISED'''
-In pre-liberalisation India, government jobs were the middle-class's mainstay. And Prime Minister VP Singh's decision to implement the decade-old Mandal Commission Report which extended caste-based reservations to OBCs riled millions.
-Following the self-immolation of DU student Rajeev Goswami, violent protests engulfed north India. But VP's move turned out to be a permanent political gamechanger.
-==The 1980s planted the seeds of the 1990s==
-[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=How-the-dark-clouds-of-Eighties-paved-way-15082017457007  R Jagannathan, How the dark clouds of Eighties paved way for sunny Nineties, August 15, 2017: The Times of India]
+New Delhi
-'''Social Upheavals Like Mandal Built Into An Unstoppable Storm For Change'''
+The Delhi high court has asked Delhi Police to reshuffle naib courts every three years.
+A naib court is a policeman who acts as the link between the local police station, jail authorities and the court concerned having the jurisdiction of a particular area. They function in close coordination with the prosecution and under supervision of the local DCP . They are mostly of the rank of constable or head constable.
-When stories need to be told about the past, it is de rigueur to seek seminal events and turning points on which to hang the nar rative. Thus, it is commonplace to believe that Indian economic history was rewritten when Manmohan Singh liberalised the economy in 1991; that the BJP's political edifice was built on the ruins of the Babri Masjid in 1992; that Pokharan II saw India emerge as a nu clear power; that the dotcom boom of the late 1990s saw India's rise as an IT superpower; that the anti-corruption movement began with Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal.
+From maintaining a register of summons issued or directions given to police officials connected to a case to ensuring compliance of the orders by the police, a naib court is an important cog in the wheel of justice delivery and is attached to the Prosecution Branch in each court complex where criminal cases are heard.
-In short, the Nineties and the Noughties were the happening decades, with the Eighties being the dark era, bringing only bad memories of the licence-permit raj, failed reforms, riots, mob violence, ethnic cleansing, assassinations, corruption and caste conflict. tion and caste conflict.
+A recent missive sent to police commissioner Amulya Patnaik by the HC administration under instructions from acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal, said that “continuous and long postings“ of naib courts in the same court give an impression of a “nexus.“
-Hindsight allows us to question history from a vantage point. The glorious Nineties would not have been glorious without the Excruciating Eighties, which should be seen as a defining decade in India's history.
+The letter, sent by RG Dinesh Sharma informs the CP that “High Court of Delhi is in receipt of lot of complaints that there is unhealthy practice of continuous postings of particular naib courts in the same courts or with the same judicial officers for long durations.“ The RG's letter further adds that in order to “inspire confidence of litigants and lawyers, Honorable Acting Chief Justice has been pleased to direct that a naib court may not be posted in the same court same court complex and with the same judicial officer for more than one tenure.“
-A cascade of political and economic events and halting reforms defined the Eighties. The prelude to the decade saw Indian voters writing off the Janata Party experiment as a bad dream, but the idea of a non-Congress government stayed with us and resulted in the Atal Behari Vajpayee government of 1998-2004. And Modi in 2014.
+It clarified that by one tenure, the court administration means a period not exceeding three years under any circumstances.
-The first seeds of economic liberalisation were sown in the 1980s, when Indira Gandhi romped back to power. Her government started the process of unwinding the licence-raj by adopting the policy of “broadbanding“, which meant companies producing more than what they were licensed to were not penalised. After her assassination, her son Rajiv Gandhi pursued this policy further, and 25 industries were delicenced in March 1985. India saw the creation of its first home-made modern car (the Maruti), built on the ruins of Sanjay Gandhi's failed dream of doing the same. Flashy mobikes replaced the stodgy scooters. Rajiv Gandhi brought the Asiad to India, and with it came TV , creating the basis for the wider dissemination of news and entertainment in a democracy; this expansion of the discourse from the classes to the masses is what helped foment a million mutinies in India, preparing the ground for the emergence of a new aspirational class that demanded more and expected more.In 1988-89, India saw its only-ever double-digit growth rate, but it was built on the sand of dubious fiscal policy, setting the stage for external bankruptcy and a forced change of economic course in 1991 under Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh.
+Until now, the police brass posted naib courts to prosecution branch of a court complex from where they are attached to individual courts.
-We underrate the Eighties because it brings us horrific memories of a violent Khalistan movement and the anti-Sikh riots of 1984, the Nellie massacre and the Assam agitation against illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, and the ethnic cleansing of Pandits from the Kashmir Valley . But Indira's assassination in October 1984, and Rajiv's sination in October 1984, and Rajiv's in 1991, marked the beginning of the end of two major terrorist movements in Punjab and Sri Lanka, though this was punctuated by two policy mistakes  Indira's assault on the Golden Temple to flush out terrorists, and Rajiv's attempt to send the Indian Army to rein in the LTTE. Rajiv's election in 1984 saw the end of the Punjab and Assam agitations, and no one can take this achievement away from him.
+=Personnel issues=
+==Benefits to cops==
+===Benefits after 15 years’ service===
+[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Higher-rank-perks-for-cops-serving-for-15-09112016011019  Higher rank, perks for cops serving for 15 yrs, Nov 09 2016 : The Times of India]
-But he failed to change the system. Nothing illustrated this better than Bofors, where bribes were paid to middlemen in the purchase of this Swedish howitzer, with Rajiv himself suspected to be involved. While India was not new to corruption and scandals, Bofors shook India like never before. Not only did it upend the Rajiv Gandhi government, but the anti-corruption sentiment that brought VP Singh to power in 1989 created the template for future political movements that used an anti-corruption plank to come to power. Echoes of that storm are still reverberating in India, with Modi riding to power using the UPA-era corruption scandals as pegs to mount his campaign on. If the first anti-corruption movement  the one led by Jayaprakash Narayan in the early 1970s  ended in Indira Gandhi imposing the Emergency, the latest one, started by Anna Hazare, has given anti-corruption more legs to stand on; Narendra Modi has demonstrated that there may even be electoral gains to be made after putting people through hardships with the demonetisation of high-value notes.
-The social upheavals of the Eighties also contributed to the remaking of India. If the first few decades of independence, which were marked by the building of the “temples of modern India“  large state sector steel plants, the IITs, the IIMs  created India's upper caste-led middle class, the Mandal movement demanding caste-based reservations for non-SCST groups broadbased the middle class; from a handful, the middle class soon grew to several hundred million in just over two decades.
+Delhi Police has issued a circular according to which constables and head constables who have completed 15 years of service would be entitled to a senior position immediately .
-It is sometimes said that Mandal led to the Mandir agitation, which finally led to the rise of Hindutva politics and the razing of the Babri Masjid in 1992. But the more insightful way of looking at Mandalisation is that it created a broader Hindu platform for the growth of the BJP . The BJP post-Mandal became broadbased in its social composition, and today its leading light is a man from the “other backward castes“.It is no longer a Brahmin-Bania party , as the very adoption of the goods and services tax (GST) shows. A trader-led party would have opposed GST tooth and nail. With this, the BJP is now a broad centrist party , with Hindutva leanings, but one which the responsibility of power will soften.
+A head constable promoted to an assistant sub-inspector would also be eligible to become an investigating officer of a case, thereby easing the load of existing IOs.Senior officers said these special grade policemen would be tasked to handle petty cases that are now probed by officers ranked higher.
-Put simply, the Eighties were when the demand for change began to build into an unstoppable storm. We can regret the violence and communalism that accompanied this transition, but we can't wish away the fact that what grew into a giant tree was the sapling planted, unwittingly or wittingly, in the Eighties; what remains an ugly sore on the conscience of the nation, began as a small itch in that decade.
+The rules provide for promotion but due to the infamous red tape and infrastructure issues, a constable sometimes ends up serving in the same rank for 25 years; some even retire with that rank.Now, departmental promotion may take its own pace but personnel would be able to seek the benefits of designation and uniform. Nearly one-fifth of the force, or 28,000 personnel, would benefit from this.
-==The 1990s==
+According to the circular, any constable given a special grade would be promoted as head constable subject to eligibility. However, higher grades would not create new po sitions in Delhi police. A constable given a rank of head constable would be allowed to wear such rank insignia and receive the grade pay of a head constable.
-[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=INDIA-AN-UNAUTHORISED-BIOGRAPHY-PEOPLE-EVENTS-POLICIES-15082017457023  INDIA: AN UNAUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY PEOPLE, EVENTS, POLICIES, August 15, 2017: The Times of India]
+A committee would soon be constituted to look for eligible personnel and improve their grades. Special rank officers would also receive 30-day training before assuming functions of a higher rank.
-'''39 THE POLL GURU'''
+A constable would be eligible for a minimum of three promotions till he reaches the rank of a sub-inspector based on the number of years in service. Similar steps have been taken in Punjab, Kerala and Puducherry already . In the past four months, 4,498 policemen have already been granted higher ranks.
-The 10th chief election commission er, TN Seshan (1990-96), changed Indian elections forever. Despite political resistance he implemented laws for codes of conduct, election expenses, use of propaganda mate rial, etc. Under him, the Election Commission finally acquired its independence.
+''' Vacancies '''
-'''40 RISE OF THE DALITS'''
+The Centre had earlier asked Delhi Police to put forward a recruitment proposal. In 2014, HC directed the Centre to fill up 14,000 posts. It was further brought down by MHA to 4,227 posts.
-Dalits, or Harijans as they were generally referred to, were considered to be part of the Congress `vote bank' till Kanshi Ram and his associate Mayawati welded them into a self-aware political grouping, transfiguring north Indian politics.
+==Crimes against policemen==
+[[File: Crimes against policemen, 2013-16.jpg|Crimes against policemen, 2013-16; [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Gallery.aspx?id=04_01_2017_006_025_009&type=P&artUrl=Asked-to-remove-car-man-beats-up-cop-04012017006025&eid=31808 The Times of India], Jan 4, 2017|frame|500px]]
-'''41 DIAL A REVOLUTION'''
+'''See graphic'''
-Under Rajiv Gandhi, telephone and STD booths mushroomed. Telecom revolution 2.0 got underway in 1995 when West Bengal's Leftist chief minister Jyoti Basu made the first call on a mobile phone, the ultimate status symbol then. A minute's call (Rs 24) cost as much as a litre of petrol. Today calls are almost free and rickshaw pullers could own a cellphone, even a smartphone. Telecom subscribers number over a billion. Only one thing is lost: privacy.
+''Crimes against policemen, 2013-16''
-''1 CALL'S COST IN 1995 24 ( 16 for calling, 8 for receiving) TODAY CALLS ARE ALMOST FREE''
+==Dismissal from service==
+===2018:  61 policemen fired, 2,000+ faced the whip===
+[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F01%2F10&entity=Ar00811&sk=61DD40E7&mode=text  January 10, 2019: ''The Times of India'']
-'''42 FIRST FAMILY OF BUSINESS'''
-Despite charges of crony capital ism, Dhirubhai Ambani built one of the world's most powerful businesses from a 350-sq-ft room in Masjid Bunder. In less than two decades he built India's largest private company. Son Mukesh is now the richest man in India, with a net worth of over Rs 3 lakh crore on April 2017.
+The annual crime data of the Delhi Police has revealed that 61 police personnel were dismissed from service in 2018. The department also initiated disciplinary action against 2,069 officers last year.
-'''43 ALT-CINEMA'''
+Police commissioner Amulya Patnaik said there is zero tolerance on corruption in the force and encouraged people to come forward with their complaints against policemen.
-The parallel cinema movement began in the late 1960s but flourished in the 1970s and 1980s, nurtured by the likes of Shyam Benegal and Govind Nihalani, and actors Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil and Shabana Azmi.
+The data on action taken by the vigilance unit of Delhi Police showed 472 inquires being conducted in 2018. Of these, allegations in 107 vigilance cases were proven against 272 police officers. Among those who faced disciplinary action were five ACP-rank officers and 62 inspector-rank officers.
-Together they provided an alternative to mainstream Bollywood. Southern cinema saw a resurgence through the works of Adoor Gopalakrishnan, G Aravindan and Girish Kasaravalli.
+Delhi Police also suspended 433 personnel, ranging from inspectors to constables, in 2018 for disciplinary matters. Inaction, corruption and harassment remained the major issues that prompted actions against the errant cops.
-'''44 ROY THE TRENDSETTER'''
+The department used an array of methods to receive complaints of wrongdoings by the cops. These included the anticorruption helpline — 99106 41064, which received 638 calls in 2018. Of these, 378 complaints were related to inaction by the police staff, while 171 calls were regarding corruption and 89 calls were for other complaints. Of the complaints, the unit initiated action in 73 instances.
-Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things won the Booker Prize in 1997. A literary and commercial success, it opened up avenues for Indian authors writing in English and started the era of big book advances in the country. It also gave India its best known political activist and voice of conscience.
+The flying squad of the vigilance branch, led by an ACPrank officer, attended to 1,238 complaint calls at various police stations in the city. Apart from them, the special surveillance teams conducted 87 surprise checks to ascertain the performance of traffic cops, PCR vans and beat officers, who tend to have the most interaction with the public.
-'''45 KARGIL WAR'''
+The police data also revealed that 318 cops, including seven inspector rank officers, were given major punishments after inquiries were conducted by the vigilance unit. In total, 1,690 personnel were given minor punishments after the conclusion of inquiries against them.
-Though a low-intensity conflict, Kargil 1999 was a stab in India's back at a time when it was trying to make a new beginning with Pakistan after the Lahore declaration between Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif . Himalayan heights lost had to be recaptured at a great cost of men and material.
+The unit, which maintains a list of cops with doubtful integrity, added 833 names to the list in 2018. The vigilance unit removed the names of 550 cops after probing allegations against them, while 725 cops continue to remain on the watch.
-'''46 ROLE MODEL FOR PERFECTION'''
+People actively sent their grievances to the official email ID of the top cop — cp.amulyapatnaik@delhipolice.gov.in and delpol@vsnl.com with 34,346 complaints being received and forwarded for necessary action.
-Sachin Tendulkar blended insatiable run-making with impeccable off-field conduct to become India's most marketable and first multi-million-dollar cricketer.
+Police chief Amulya Patnaik said there is zero tolerance on corruption in the policce force and encouraged people to come forward with their complaints
-==1994-2000==
+==Minority communities in the ranks, less than 4%/ 2017==
-[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=INDIA-AN-UNAUTHORISED-BIOGRAPHY-PEOPLE-EVENTS-POLICIES-15082017458044  INDIA: AN UNAUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY PEOPLE, EVENTS, POLICIES, August 15, 2017: The Times of India]
+[http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/minority-members-in-delhi-police-under-4/article20941463.ece  Muslims form less than 2% of police force, November 25, 2017: ''The Hindu'']
-'''47 Malls and Multiplexes'''
+The Delhi Police, which has a strength of around 80,000 personnel, employs less than 4% of members from minority communities in its ranks, according to a report by the Delhi Minorities Commission (DMC).
-The new temples of new India, over 500 malls and 2,200 multiplex screens have combined to revolutionise the way urban and small-town India shops and entertains itself.
+'''CM releases report'''
-'''48 CROWNING GLORIES'''
+The annual report, released by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also shows that Muslims, the largest minority group in Delhi, form less than 2% of the police force here.
-The year was 1994 and a popular model with gorgeous grey-green eyes was billed as the favourite to win Miss India. Not only did the little-known 18-year-old Sushmita Sen steal the national pageant, she went on to win Miss Universe.Aishwarya Rai had to console herself with the Miss World title.Others who brought home titles were Diana Hayden, Lara Dutta, and Priyanka Chopra, among others. These pageant victories inspired millions of girls, both in cosmopolitan as well as smalltown India, to work out for that model bod. And it spawned the multi-million-rupee beauty industry across the country. Getting the story right 52 Critics panned Chetan Bhagat for his tacky turn of phrase, but he wrote and spoke the lingo of the young, urban, aspirational Indian. His paperbacks, priced at Rs 99 a piece, became bestsellers, and birthed the sub-genre of Indian easy-read fiction in English.Bhagat is now university course material, proving today's India is full of possibilities.
+The report said the force has 1,388 Muslim personnel and 697 Christian personnel. It said the Delhi Police employs 856 Sikh personnel.
-'''49 Clean air on order'''
+“The Delhi Police has 1.79% personnel from the Muslim community. In total, it has 3,035 personnel from minority communities who form 3.91% of the total strength of the force,” the commission said in its report.
-Goaded by the Supreme Court's 1998 ruling, Delhi's public transport network of buses switched from diesel to cleaner, cheaper CNG, helping curtail pollution and prevent hundreds of premature deaths due to respiratory ailments. The landmark order paved the way for other cities to follow a similar path. But its impact was soon negated by an exponential rise in the population of cars and two-wheelers running on diesel. Eighteen years later, the SC revisited the issue in 2016 as smog enveloped the city. Public transport expansion seems the only way out.
+In the report, the DMC has identified 12 departments and corporations of which members of the minority communities are a part. Apart from the police, the Delhi Fire Service (DFS) has a total of 26 members from minority communities which is the lowest among 12 departments and corporations.
-'''50 No-ball and out'''
+'''DMRC members'''
-If cricket is religion in India, then match-fixing is the ultimate sin. In 2000, Delhi Police took the lid off what was cricket's worst kept secret. Among those who had to face the music were top cricketers such as captain Mohd Azharuddin, Ajay Sharma and Ajay Jadeja.
+The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) employees 283 members from minority communities.
-None of them were charged but they never played for India again.
+However, the Directorate of Training tops the list at 13.33%, followed by the Public Grievance Commission at 7.69% and the Directorate General of Home Guards at 5.22%.
-'''51 Malta boat tragedy'''
+==Recruitment in Delhi Police==
+===2015: Recruitment of constables===
+[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=One-constable-for-every-262-Delhiites-30102015008059 ''The Times of India''], Oct 30 2015
-The drowning of over 300 South Asians, 170 of them Indians, on Dec 25-26, 1996, was the worst loss of life in the Mediterranean since World War II. It awakened the world to the problem of illegal migration.Thousands more have died since. The journeys of death continue.
+'''One constable for every 262 Delhiites'''
-'''52 It worked for UPA'''
+Delhi Police, one of the largest metropolitan police forces in the world with a sanctioned strength of around 72,000, is likely to recruit more than 15,000 additional personnel in a major boost to its manpower.
-Poverty alleviation schemes come and go but UPA's 2006 MGNREGA scheme had that magical phrase “guaranteed 100 days income“ which captured the hinterland's imagination and helped Manmohan Singh's government win another term.
+The Union home ministry is working on a proposal to sanction the additional posts which would translate to at least a 20% increase in numbers and would be the biggest expansion of the Del hi Police. Women are likely to get a third of these posts.
-'''53 The Three Khans'''
+“As part of its initiative to improve policing in the capital, the ministry proposes to recruit 15,000-20,000 consta bles into the Delhi Police over a period of time. The Cabinet note is being drafted and will be put up for approv al soon,“ a home ministry official told. According to data from the Bureau of Police Research and Development, Delhi Police had a sanctioned strength of 72,686 personnel (civil and district armed police) as on January 1, 2014. It far exceeds the national average in terms of population per policeman.
-Salman, Shah Rukh and Aamir -three of a kind -have grown bigger and better with every passing decade. Together they have ensured that Bollywood stays healthy and flourishes globally despite piracy and the Hollywood invasion. Of late, though, the charisma seems to be waning.Salman's Tubelight and Shah Rukh's When Harry Met Sejal have hardly set the box-office on fire. Only Aamir's Dangal ruled both India and China.
+As against one constable for every 262 Delhiites, the national average stands at one policeman for 716 persons.
-'''54 Big B's lifeline'''
+The Delhi Police also beats all other metropolitan police forces in India in terms of manpower. As compared to 72,686 sanctioned strength of civil police in Delhi, Mumbai has just 48,969 policemen and Kolkata 22,834 policemen. There are 11 police sub-districts in Delhi, with 181 police stations, 23 out posts and 15 state armed police stations.
-Kaun Banega Crorepati (2000), India's most expensive quiz show, turned the fortunes of Star TV and recast a sliding Amitabh Bachchan as superstar of the small screen. The show triggered a bunch of failed imitators and altered the idea of prime time entertainment.
+“The proposal to expand the Delhi Police may be included in the next year's general budget, which will earmark the required funds. The timeline for recruitment of the 15,000 constables is being decided,“ said a home ministry functionary .
+Union home minister Rajnath Singh has constantly pitched for strengthening the Delhi Police, laying particular stress on making the capital safer for women.
-==The post- 1992 era of rapid growth==
+The sanctioned strength of constabulary in the Delhi Police, as per BPR&D data, was 18,989 head constables and 39,834 constables (including civil and district armed police) as on January 1, 2014. Each Delhi Police constable has an average 0.02 square kilometer of area under him.
-[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=How-the-nation-morphed-from-Bharat-the-commodity-15082017458020  Bachi Karkaria, How the nation morphed from Bharat the commodity to India the brand, August 15, 2017: The Times of India]
+==Rogue list==
+===2016/ Rogue list===
+[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Rogue-list-gets-longer-02012017002022  ''' `Rogue' list gets longer ''', Jan 2, 2017: The Times of India]
-'''See graphic:'''
-''The 1990s Balance Sheet''
+'''Around a dozen Delhi Police personnel were arrested on criminal charges in 2016'''
-[[File: The 1990s Balance Sheet.jpg|The 1990s Balance Sheet; [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Gallery.aspx?id=15_08_2017_458_020_014&type=P&artUrl=How-the-nation-morphed-from-Bharat-the-commodity-15082017458020&eid=31808 The Times of India], August 15, 2017|frame|500px]]
+Three traffic policemen we re caught recently for abducting a businessman. They drove him around central Delhi till he agreed to give them the money he was carrying to deposit at a bank. A few days later, a policeman was shot by criminals and it was later found that he was conniving with them to run a gambling racket and a dance bar in outer Delhi.
-''In the time of Sensex and Sushmita Sen, the economic reforms finally freed India from the Hindu rate of growth''
+In May 2016, an SHO was arrested after he was found to be instigating the girlfriend of a criminal to commit suicide.The woman later reached the Tees Hazari police station and consumed poison, blaming the SHO for her death.
-Where business is without fear and the Sensex is held high Where the market is free Where the economy has not been broken up into fragments By narrow socialist ends Where industry comes out of the clutches of licence permit raj Where endless forms don't stretch their arms towards bribery Where the clear stream of enterprise has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of dead frustration Where innovation is led forward Into ever-rising growth and development Into that heaven of choices, my FM, let my country awake We had walked into Tagore's `heaven of freedom' eyes glistening, optimism held high and a fair and handsome Prime Minister who dressed Indian, spoke Oxonian and thought Fabian.But 40 years later, the poster child of the post-WWII world looked decidedly hollow eyed. The licence permit quota system had strangled private endeavour of every kind. The unaccountable nationalised sector turned out a product that was usually gross. Having waited five years to get a phone connection, we were shortchanged by an MTNL which stood for `Mera Telephone Nahin Lagta'. Shortages gave Henry Ford's famous offer a distinctively Indian accent: `You can have any product of your choice provided you pay for it in black.' Thus, we entered the 1990s with national bankruptcy putting a gun to our head, and the IMF yapping at our heels, threatening to stop all further bailouts. Surprisingly, the guys who so flamboyantly changed the game were two of the most soporific-seeming men ever in Indian polity. The languorous Prime Minister Narasimha Rao and his taciturn Finance Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh. The economic reforms of 1991-92 were a shotgun wedding, but from their consummation sprang the hitherto unknown consumer society . Bharat the commodity turned into India the brand, or at least one with the outer trappings thereof.
+In 2016, the vigilance department had conducted 55% more inquires against its men.A Delhi Police survey found 34% of the cops to be corrupt in 2015, down from 66% in 2014.
-As the last decade of the 20th century swaggered ahead, we plunged bravely into the new world of transformation. Having lived with a scenario where the only choice was take it or leave it, we began baskin' in one where everything came in 21 flavours. The public sector tumbled from its `commanding heights' and the newly liberated private players rushed in where they had seldom been allowed to tread.This was most noticeable in the financial markets. Davids challenged the Goliath of the nationalised banks whose inefficiencies had been papered over by state protectionism. The best and the brightest became `high-wage' islands, with Pradeep Shah's name invoked in awe for having broken the one-croreper-annum barrier.
+Last year, the department registered 88 cases under the Prevention of Corruption Act against 77 policemen. Inquiries were conducted against 838 policemen, of which charges were proved against an ACP , 12 inspectors, 18 sub-inspectors, two ASIs, five head constables and 15 constables. Of the 490 cops suspended in 2015, 10 were inspectors, 90 sub-inspectors, 46 ASIs, and the rest were cons tables and home guards. Departmental inquiries were ordered against 1,017 officers and 90 policemen were dismissed from service following complaints.
-More to the point, while money had always talked, for the first time it became an unabashed talking point. The once discreet worship of Lakshmi turned into a clanging, clamorous aarti to the creation of wealth. Or to choose a more secular metaphor, making money came out of the closet and turned into a flaunt-it-all parade.
+The department got 1.09 lakh complaints on its anti-corruption helpline. A 24x7 flying squad was formed for corruption complaints. A mobile app was also launched for quick registration.
-The spending of money underwent an even more dramatic change, physical and psychological. Socialism's pursedlipped disapproval gave way to a khullam khulla loosening of purse strings.Horror, we even learnt to splurge before we earned. The streetcar named desire glided smoothly on the hitherto unheard of tracks of plastic and EMI.
+===2018/ Rogue list===
+[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F08%2F01&entity=Ar00605&sk=7F1DB836&mode=text  Over a dozen policemen in dock in last 12 months, August 1, 2018: ''The Times of India'']
-Economic reforms freed India from that endless cycle of dearth and redearth which had come to be known as the `Hindu rate of growth'. Nirvana was pegged to the GDP of globalisation, development and privatisation. This triumvirate ordered the overarching metamorphosis. If it often overreached, that too was okay, in fact a fundamental part of the no-hold-barred mandate. With the middle class becoming the first of the great spenders, India's image turned from begging bowl to market opportunity . Global fund managers arrived jangling bags of FII and FDI.
+[[File: Criminal charges against policemen, Delhi- 2017, 2018.jpg|Criminal charges against policemen, Delhi- 2017, 2018 <br/> From: [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F08%2F01&entity=Ar00605&sk=7F1DB836&mode=text  Over a dozen policemen in dock in last 12 months, August 1, 2018: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
-It would naturally follow that society too would drop its old burqa and paint its lips in strumpet red. True, the makeover was powered by the liberalised economy, but society added noticeable dare-to-bare of its own. The dreaded `P' form had discouraged anyone from going abroad since we were only allowed to take out a ridiculous $11 and involved grovelling for letters from NRI relatives undertaking to `sponsor' your holiday . As travel rules eased up along, they brought back fresh approaches to everything.
+''Criminal Charges Range From Corruption, Bribery, Kidnapping To Robbery''
-Especially food. Vast armies travelled on their stomach, and even if the `maharaj' became an important camp follower, the paneer-chomper learnt to savour parmesan and the rotiwallas developed a taste for Swiss rosti. Gujaratis were the most visible (and audible) Indian travellers despite the restraints of `Pure Veg' and purer `Jain'. Credit the metamorphosis of Ahmedabad as much to this as to its CM, Mr M. An all-American `soda fountain' called Chills, Frills Thrills spouted on its Gandhian streets, and `pasta bens' blithely brought up a generation which had never eaten the once-staple of dal-bhaat-shaak.
+Delhi Police may be facing a major embarrassment with CBI arresting the SHO of a high-profile police station like Saket, but this not the first time this year that a cop from the force has been in the dock.
-Reflecting, and leading, the change was what came to be labelled mediamorphosis.Doordarshan was thrown on the dust-heap of state monopolies, and viewers hitched their wagon to Star. Transponders became society's transformers. Global television inevitably began to impose its `footprint' on print. It was the dawning of the age of news as entertainment began; `content' would enter the lexicon more loudly with the arrival of the Internet. Dictatorial editors in ivory towers became as obsolete as the elephant hunt, and the `reader' began to be appeased as the `customer'. In this genuflection, the conventional `who, where, when, why and how' was extended to the way news was produced, disseminated and consumed.
+In the last one year, more than a dozen policemen of various ranks have been arrested on criminal charges ranging from corruption, bribery, kidnapping to robbery.
-The T-rex of technology made this possible like everything about the way we lived, worked and played. As in the Marxian view of capitalism, it too carried within itself the seeds of destruction. But none of this spoilt the party, nay not even the doomsday threat of Y2K, as we danced into the next millennium with fin de siecle abandon.
+Just last week, two policemen were dismissed for being involved in a kidnapping case. In May, a cop in Samaypur Badli was dismissed for aiding drug dealers. An inspector was arrested in June for his involvement in a cheating and human trafficking racket. The same month, a sub-inspector and a constable from Punjabi Bagh police station were arrested and dismissed in a bribery case.
-==2000-2017==
+A few months ago, the police department was left rattled after a senior inspector and an intelligence bureau officer were arrested along with another associate on charges of running a transfer-posting racket. During searches, CBI had seized Rs 1.6 crore in cash. While this was seen as the tip of an iceberg, the arrests in the case remained limited to three.
-[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=INDIA-AN-UNAUTHORISED-BIOGRAPHY-PEOPLE-EVENTS-POLICIES-15082017459045  INDIA: AN UNAUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY PEOPLE, EVENTS, POLICIES, August 15, 2017: The Times of India]
-'''See graphic:'''
+The rising number of arrests of policemen indicates that not only does the vigilance branch need a complete revamp, but police commissioner Amulya Patnaik and his deputies need to monitor the activities of DCPs and SHOs more closely. Sources said that the lawyer arrested on Tuesday had uninterrupted access to offices of many senior officers.
-''The 2000s Balance Sheet''
+In Tuesday’s operation, a hunt is on for another inspector from Hauz Khas police station who had also been on CBI’s radar in the past. The role of other policemen, including senior district-level officers, is being probed, sources said.
-[[File: The 2000s Balance Sheet.jpg|The 2000s Balance Sheet; [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Gallery.aspx?id=15_08_2017_459_005_014&type=P&artUrl=In-New-India-technology-and-media-make-democracy-15082017459005&eid=31808 The Times of India], August 15, 2017|frame|500px]]
+Questions are also being raised on how a tainted cop managed to get a posting in a high-profile south Delhi police station. Sources said police stations like Saket are among the most sought-after in the capital. Most of the times only a handful of “super SHOs” — inspectors heading big police stations — get posted there. Also, a handful of inspectors get to head the same police station twice in a span of a few years.
+The police brass, however, claimed that the transfer board relies on various parameters to select an officer for the job. Delhi Police said they practice zero tolerance and policemen caught in such acts are dismissed immediately.
-'''55 Twitterati and trolls'''
+==Shortage: extent, 2017==
+[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Cases-taking-ages-without-enough-IOs-27052017002016  Somreet Bhattacharya, Cases taking ages without enough IOs, May 27, 2017: The Times of India]
-When Narendra Modi tweeted about his first meetings as PM, everyone sat up to open accounts. Twitter has said India is its fastest growing market for daily active users, growing 5x the global average this year. But armies of vicious trolls, abusive tweets and fake news show India has a long way to go to understand debate and cyber etiquette.
+[[File: Pendency of investigation cases, 2012-16.jpg|Pendency of investigation cases, 2012-16; [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Cases-taking-ages-without-enough-IOs-27052017002016  Somreet Bhattacharya, Cases taking ages without enough IOs, May 27, 2017: The Times of India]|frame|500px]]
-'''56 DAYS OF TERROR'''
+'''Only 12% Hike In Officer Count Since 2012'''
-Militants sent by boat from Karachi landed in Mumbai on November 26, 2008, got past layers of security and unleashed a bloodbath on the streets, in a hospital and railway station, cafes and hotels.
+Since 2012, while the cases being registered have gone up by 260%, the number of IOs has increased by only 12%.
-It went on for three days.
+The police have, however, got a breather as the Union home ministry sanctioned more than 4,000 posts for investigating officers (IO) last year to take some load off the overburdened cops. The de cision was taken after getting approval from the department of expenditure and finance ministry and has been made operational in two phases in 2016-17 and 2017-18.
-The toll touched 166 before all but one were killed. It was a wake up call for the police, military and intelligence agencies.
+According to standard practice, IOs at police stations or specialised units have to complete investigations within 30 days of a case being registered and prepare the chargesheet. Each IO, usually of the rank of subinspector or inspector, is burdened with over 50 cases at a time. They either have to compromise on the probe quality or delay it for some time to clear out backlogs.
-'''57 Demanding answers'''
+Officers agree that the practice not only exhausts a policeman, but leads to extra hours of work, some stret ching for days. “In incidents like murders and robberies, the IO has to work for hours to gather evidence physically leaving out all other probes he is engaged in,“ said a police officer.
-Few laws have empowered ordinary people as The Right to Information Act, which yanked open the Steel Frame of India in 2005. Around 1.75 crore RTIs -4,800 a day -have been filed in the past decade. Many queries are stonewalled but in several cases, notably Mumbai's Adarsh Society scam, RTI shook the establishment. The question of transparency has reached the doors of the judiciary and political parties as well. So far the information commission's attempts to define them as “public authorities“ in a bid to make them disclose assets or their working style has been met with resistance. But many Supreme Court judges have sought to promote a climate of accountability by revealing how much they are worth.
+In the Nirbhaya incident of December 2012, the investigators contacted external agencies to collate evidence of dentures and blood samples within a month to prepare a watertight chargesheet, which led to a landmark judgment. As per the plan, 635 graduate constables have undergone specialised training to investigate petty cases. Around 1,640 constables and head constables have been promoted under the special grade scheme and trained to handle cases.
-'''58 Creating unicorns'''
+A total of 15,000 policemen have been trained in specialised courses, like scientific investigations, law of extradition and important case studies. DCPs and ACPs have also been trained to monitor the quality of the investigations.
-Founded in 2007 by IIT graduates Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal to sell books online, Flipkart not only changed the way India shopped but also showed the world that India was ready for tech entrepreneurs to build billion-dollar companies. With SoftBank investing $2.5 billion, FlipKart can now reach for the stars.
+However, cops say that investigators require specialised support from external agencies. Cops have proposed setting up of 17 posts of assistant legal advisors and permission to investigators to seek help from chartered accountants, cyber experts and engineers. The police commissioner can be empowered to employ specialists for each case.
-'''59 Out of Cash'''
+==Suicides, mental health issues/ 2017==
+[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=MENTAL-HEALTH-DAY-Suicide-by-3-cops-in-10102017006016  Raj Shekhar Jha & Somreet Bhattacharya, Suicide by 3 cops in 15 days puts mental health issues in focus, October 10, 2017: The Times of India]
-On November 8, 2016, PM Narendra Modi launched India's third demonetisation drive, after 1946 and 1978, to flush out black money. It wiped out 86% of the currency in circulation overnight and caused serpentine queues outside ATMs and banks. After-effects included suffering agro markets, job losses, drop in real estate demand and -surprise, surprise -a sweeping victory for the BJP in the 2017 UP polls.
+[[File: Number of suicides among Delhi Police Personnel due to depression, 2017.jpg|Number of suicides among Delhi Police Personnel due to depression, 2017 <br/> From: [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Gallery.aspx?id=10_10_2017_006_013_002&type=P&artUrl=Why-men-in-uniform-are-feeling-low-10102017006013&eid=31808 The Times of India], October 10, 2017|frame|500px]]
-'''60 ANNA, ARVIND & AAP'''
-Love it or loathe it but Arvind Kerjriwal's AAP is definitely the most exciting and original thing to happen in Indian politics.
+'''Five policemen in Delhi have killed themselves in the past two months -three of them within a fortnight. In all, the count is nine in 2017'''
-In Feb 2015, they swept the Delhi state polls, leaving the BJP flabbergasted and its opponents in ecstasy. Many now wonder what happened to the party which emerged out of Anna Hazare's anti-corruption movement that electrified India in 2011.
+Most of them were on duty when they shot themselves with their service weapons. While many have left suicide notes, some deaths have remained a mystery . However, depression turns out to be the most common reason, hinting probably at an immediate need to address the mental health problems of Delhi Police personnel.
-'''61 The Duracell director'''
+From family problems to ill health to tiff with seniors -cops are depressed due to various reasons. Seven-eight personnel committed suicide every year in the past five years and many of them had written about depression in their suicide notes.
-In a career spanning five decades, versatile director Yash Chopra delivered blockbusters such as Deewar, Kabhi Kabhie and Dil To Paagal Hai, effortlessly bending his craft to the mood of the time. His Yash Raj films, which has produced hits like DDLJ, the Dhoom series and Sultan, is one of the biggest banners in Bollywood.
+The police reforms manual, prepared after a PIL was filed by former DGPs Prakash Singh and N K Singh, has also cited arbitrary and frequent transfers at the behest of influential third parties as a cause behind depression and demotivation.
-'''62 Women power in sports'''
+Thippeswamy from Karnataka, who jumped before the railway tracks in January , had written, “I am sorry my dear family and friends. I was suffering from depression since very long time. I am unable to cope up with that. So I am taking my own life.“
-At the 2016 Rio Olympics, both medals for India were won by women: PV Sindhu (silver) in badminton and Sakshi Malik (bronze) in wrestling. They typify the leap women have made in sports -Karnam Malleswari (weightlifting), Sania Mirza (tennis), Saina Nehwal (badminton) and Mary Kom (boxing) -this millennium.
+Head constable Chand Pal, who had shot himself on the Supreme Court premises in January , was depressed due to family issues. He had alleged in the suicide note that his family members had grabbed his property . A marital discord and long hours of duty had further worsened his mental health.
-'''63 BABA AND BUSINESSMAN'''
+Head constable Pramod Kumar, who killed himself at Delhi Cantt police station in August, was also in depression due to family problems. He said he couldn't keep his wife and children happy .
-Baba Ramdev's rise as India's chief yoga evangelist started 15 years ago with a TV show that was equal parts fitness and spirituality. Nobody foresaw that the saffron-clad Baba would transform into India's biggest FMCG phenomenon, challenging MNCs, and emerge a political player, mocking the epitaph some wrote after his escape from Ramlila Maidan in a woman's garb.
+Har Bhagwan, another head constable who shot himself inside the beat box in Shahbad Dairy , was depressed over quarrels with his wife. He shot himself a few minutes after arguing with her over the phone. However, Delhi Police does not have any provision to deal with mental health of its employees. Cops said they were counselled and their grievances were addressed. The recent large-scale promotions are one of the initiatives taken to relieve and motivate many , they claimed.
-'''64 YES, PRIME MINISTER'''
+Senior officials said they had taken steps to ensure that the personnel-on-theground didn't feel left out. “Whether it be the issue of leaves on anniversary or children's birthdays or going home once a week, all SHOs and DCPs have been asked to reach out to their subordinates and ensure that all help is extended to them. This will be discussed on priority in the next meeting,“ said Delhi Police spokesperson Dependra Pathak.
-Narendra Modi's charisma pulled India out of the mire of coalition politics after 25 years -his is the first non-Congress government to enjoy a majority in Lok Sabha -and his vote catching appeal only seems to grow despite controversial economic measures such as demonetisation.
+Delhi Police also conducts entertainment programmes. “There is also a police families welfare organisation to look after the education and health of the children and take steps to keep the policemen free from these worries,“ said Pathak. “We have directed the DCPs to conduct sampark sabhas every week to hear out grievances of junior colleagues.“ “Despite counselling, a person who has access to a weapon may end up using it easily . We are trying to address this as well,“ an officer said.
-==2000-2017: technological changes ==
+=Police stations=
-[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=In-New-India-technology-and-media-make-democracy-15082017459005  Santosh Desai, In New India, technology and media make democracy a consumer product, August 15, 2017: The Times of India]
+==Kirti Nagar: rated best in 2017==
+[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=This-police-station-is-near-perfect-16022017004034 The Times of India], Feb 16 2017
-''When technology gave faceless Indians a voice, everything began to change, faster.''
+Next time you are in or around Kirti Nagar in west Delhi and want to have coffee or need to use WiFi, you may want to head to the area police station. Strange as it may sound, it's true. Call it the outcome of its state-of-the-art infrastructure or friendly policemen, the Kirti Nagar station tops the list for facilities, functioning and environment in Delhi, a department survey has found.
-But the very people to whom technology brought home the power of democracy now sanction the dismantling of its institutions
-A BJP government was in power in 2000 and it is in power to day. Pakistan, terrorism and Kashmir were at the top of the national agenda then (the Kandahar hijacking had just taken place), and they continue to dominate the headlines today . And yet, the world we live in has undergone a fundamental change. If liberalisation in the '80s and '90s marked the arrival of a new era, with big changes in our mindsets and the way we lead our lives, post 2000, thanks to a combination of technology , media and the deeper penetration of the market mechanism, we have seen another big change. This is a New India, in all its connotations, make no mistake.
-The events that mark the 17 years in question are many question are many and diverse -the Gujarat riots, 2611, the rise of Narendra Modi and the decimation of the Congress, swanky new airports and expressways, malls and mobile phones, the short-lived resurgence in a participatory form of democracy with the Anna Hazare movement and the RTI, the IPL and 100 (and now 1,000) crore blockbusters, selfies and Whatsapp, trolls and gau-rakshaks, demonetisation and GST -these are merely a few milestones on this journey.
-What has brought about these changes is a combination of technology and media with the increasing penetration of not just the market, but the market as a mindset. At one level, this helps free up energies of a large group of people while dismantling the power of traditional elites. The mobile phone revolution has made everybody somebody; today aspirations have become an engine for change.The consuming class, in particular, has in this period started moving out of a constraint-driven worldview into a possibility powered one. The India of the 2000s is an India that has begun to acquire the sheen of prosperity , although so far this is only skin deep.
-But market-mindedness has other effects, too. Individual desire becomes the basis of our actions; things are judged not by whether they are right or wrong, but by whether they are popular or not. The rise in a celebrity culture that is pervasive, and of a format like the IPL which uses a staid sport like cricket and repackages it dazzlingly , are part of this new interplay between media and the market.
-One significant shift is in the not-sosubtle movement from journalism, the profession, to media, the business. The whole-hearted integration of journalism with business has made it a product that must deliver business outcomes. Media content is determined much more by what the audience wants, and this has led to a sea change in the nature and tonality of coverage. The second big change has been the advent of social media, which has converted every individual into a broadcaster. This has given voice to a vast number of people who were hitherto mere readers or viewers. The concerns of the mainstream have, therefore, taken centre-stage, and this has meant a dramatic change in what gets discussed as well as the language and manner in which these discussions take place.
-Politics, too, has been transformed beyond recognition. If the '80s and '90s were about making democracy more representative, the 2000s have been about a more personal engagement with democracy; the gradual recasting of democracy as a consumer product. Politics today reflects the concerns of an increasingly vocal middle class. In the earlier part of this period, this took the form of a search for an alternative to conventional politics. The rise of the AAP and the radical use of the RTI were parts of this attempt, but these have been overshadowed and almost laid to rest by the rise of the BJP . The need for participation in the democratic process has been taken care of by the emergence of social media armies, where everyone gets to criticise and abuse the person and party of their choice. The new nature of politics in India was underlined by the manner in which the 2014 campaign was mounted. It followed a fundamentally different blueprint, focusing on creating a media-driven image for Modi using a combination of hard promise and shrewd metaphor.
-New India is much more in touch with its desires and aspirations, without worrying too much about the ideals of an earlier time which are now being actively discredited. Democracy is legitimising the dismantling of democratic institutions.A new assertiveness is taking its place that finds expression in an overt display of nationalism. The fragmented and diffuse nature of diversity in India is being mobilised into a more unitary form; as a result, binaries of an ethno-religious kind are hardening.
-Liberalisation, when it came, was feared for the destabilising changes it would bring in its wake. As it turned out, a lot of the fears did not quite translate into reality . It is only post 2000 that the full effects of a market orientation, when combined with new forms of media, are being felt. The result is an India that is in touch with -and striving to indulge in -all its desires, both uplifting and base.
-=Basic developmental indicators=
-'''See graphics:'''
-''Race for smaller families and energy access, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and the world''
-''Prosperity race, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the world''
-''Race for safer child birth, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and the world, 1950-2015''
-''Race of life, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the world, 1950-2015''
-''Literacy rate, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the world, 1950-latest as in August 2017''
-'' Race for energy access, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the world.jpg|Race for energy access, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the world''
-''Scoreboard, prosperity, safe child birth, life expectancy, literacy, fertility rate, energy access''
-=Words that shaped India=
-==Slogans==
-[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=7-SLOGANS-OF-CHANGING-INDIA-15082017452019  7 SLOGANS OF CHANGING INDIA, ''The Times of India''], Aug 15 2017
-'''1950s Hum do, hamare do'''
-Motto summed up India's family planning programme, founded in 1952
-'''1960s Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan'''
-Coined by Lal Bahadur Shastri, its essence was best captured in Manoj Kumar's celluloid pageant on the soldier and the farmer, Upkar
-'''1970s Garibi Hatao'''
-An Indira Gandhi catchphrase, simple and direct. The Opposition reacted with “Indira Hatao, Desh Bachao“
-'''1980s Mera Bharat Mahaan'''
-It summed up the changing mood of an emerging India, but gained currency in jokes mocking the nation as well
-'''1990s Saugandh Ram Ki Khatein Hain, Mandir Wahin Banayenge'''
-Hindutva shout plastered on walls in north India during Ram Janmabhoomi movement
-'''2000s Maa, Maati, Manush'''
+After a long and exhaustive evaluation lasting a month, a Delhi Police committee, headed by special-commissionerrank officers, has selected Kirti Nagar police station as the best in the capital, sources say . On Thursday , the police station chief and other senior officers will be felicitated by MoS (home) at the 70th Raising Day celebrations. The results will be announced there.
-Mamata Banerjee's cry felled the 34-year-old Left regime in Bengal
+The police station comes under the jurisdiction of P Kamraj, special commissioner (law and order) of south zone, and joint commissioner Dependra Pathak. The area DCP is Vijay Kumar and the station house officer (SHO) who has worked on the ground for bringing about change is Anil Sharma. From its reception to the lock-ups, it has set an example for other police stations in Delhi, which often come under criticism for being unfriendly .Soon after taking charge as police chief, Amulya Patnaik had made it clear that policemen needed to give priority to the people.
-'''2010s Ab Ki Baar Modi Sarkar and Acchhe Din'''
+This police station allows free WiFi for all visitors who just have to register their ID at the front desk. It also has a cafeteria where eatables are available on subsidised rates for policemen as well as the public. Moreover, the station has a website of its own (http:www.pskirtinagar.com), which the area residents and businessmen can use to approach the police for help. People can download various verification forms (like those for tenants or helps) from the website, apart from lodging complaints with the area SHO.
-BJP's 2014 poll anthems electrified its voter base
+The committee gave the station maximum points on patrolling, discipline and cle anliness. Purified water facility, clean washrooms and proper seating arrangements for visitors are other points where the Kirti Nagar station scored highly . Water and coffee dispensers, newspaper and security-related literature have also been placed in the visitors' room. Apart from an indoor games room, the police station has a badminton court for policemen as well.
-==Speeches==
-'''See graphic:'''
-''Speeches that shaped India''
+==2018: 50 stations on porta-cabins or rented buildings==
+[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F01%2F18&entity=Ar01011&sk=17011F0A&mode=text  Somreet Bhattacharya & Sidharth Bhardwaj, 50 police stations don’t have permanent address, January 18, 2018: ''The Times of India'']
-=1947- 2018: an overview=
+[[File: Police Stations in Delhi, some facts, January 2018.jpg|Police Stations in Delhi, some facts, January 2018 <br/> From: [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F01%2F18&entity=Ar01011&sk=17011F0A&mode=text  Somreet Bhattacharya & Sidharth Bhardwaj, 50 police stations don’t have permanent address, January 18, 2018: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
-[[File: India at 71- Milestones through TOI's pages.jpg|India@71- Milestones through TOI's pages <br/> From: [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/olive/apa/timesofindia/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=TOIM%2F2018%2F08%2F15&id=Ar00535&sk=B2D84EFE&viewMode=image  August 15, 2018: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
 '''See graphic''':
-''India@71- Milestones through TOI's pages''
+''Police Stations in Delhi, some facts, January 2018''
-==Ten epochal ''The Times of India '' frontpages==
+'''Are Operating Out Of Rented Properties Or Porta-Cabins'''
-===August 15, 1947: India attains independence===
-[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/flashback-india71-and-its-milestones-through-the-times-of-indias-pages/august-15-1947-india-attains-independence/photostory/65403606.cms  August 14, 2018: ''The Times of India'']
-[[File: August 15, 1947- India attains independence.jpg|August 15, 1947: India attains independence <br/> From: [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/flashback-india71-and-its-milestones-through-the-times-of-indias-pages/august-15-1947-india-attains-independence/photostory/65403606.cms  August 14, 2018: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
+In sharp contrast to Kirti Nagar police station, which figured among the top 10 facilities in the country, 50 police stations in the capital are operating out of either rented properties or porta-cabins on private land.
-India throws off British rule, attains independence and takes control of its own destiny.
+According to the Delhi Police data, while 13 police stations have been running from rented premises, the others are operating out of porta-cabins on private land. Most of these are located in Rohini, southwest, northeast and outer Delhi, while central and south Delhi has one each.
-===August 12, 1948: First Olympic Gold for independent India===
+For all these stations, requests have been sent to the land-owning agencies for centrally located plots. In 2017, cops took possession of three plots from the government and sanctioned construction, while eight buildings were completed.
-[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/flashback-india71-and-its-milestones-through-the-times-of-indias-pages/august-15-1947-india-attains-independence/photostory/65403606.cms  August 14, 2018: ''The Times of India'']
-[[File: August 12, 1948- First Olympic Gold for independent India.jpg|August 12, 1948: First Olympic Gold for independent India <br/> From: [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/flashback-india71-and-its-milestones-through-the-times-of-indias-pages/august-15-1947-india-attains-independence/photostory/65403606.cms  August 14, 2018: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
+In Karawal Nagar, an adjoining plot has been rented to keep impounded vehicles but even that is getting full. The main stretch connecting the road is so damaged that underground sewer lines overflow during the monsoon, forcing cops to take longer routes even during emergencies.
-Independent India wins its first Olympic Gold medal, with the hockey team thrashing Great Britain, its former colonial master, 4-0 in the finals at the London Olympics. Indian hockey teams had won Gold medals in the 1928, 1932 and 1936 Olympics earlier while competing as a British colony. This was India's first post-Independence medal and one that's truly special.
+Officers said all these stations were set up over the past decade as the colonies grew in an unplanned manner in these bordering areas. However, no space was allotted for a police station that requires 20,000 sq metres of land on average to work effectively.
-===1965 war with Pakistan===
+At Kapashera police station in southwest Delhi, a visitors’ room has been set up in the compound and another in the backyard, using tin sheds. Officers said they recently expanded the compound to store impounded vehicles. The police vehicles are parked on the road.
-[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/flashback-india71-and-its-milestones-through-the-times-of-indias-pages/august-15-1947-india-attains-independence/photostory/65403606.cms  August 14, 2018: ''The Times of India'']
-[[File: 1965 war with Pakistan.jpg|1965 war with Pakistan <br/> From: [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/flashback-india71-and-its-milestones-through-the-times-of-indias-pages/august-15-1947-india-attains-independence/photostory/65403606.cms  August 14, 2018: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
+The establishment at Chhawla is operated out of a rented plot that does not have enough space even for cops and seized vehicles are dumped on the road. Despite repeated requests, no action has been taken to allot it a permanent address.
-The war, which began with Pakistan's Operation Gibraltar to infiltrate forces into Kashmir, saw strong Indian retaliation on the western border and some of the largest tank battles since World War II. Indian forces captured 1,920 square kilometers of Pakistani territory and thwarted all Pakistani strategic objectives. The war also wiped off the humiliation of the 1962 conflict with China.
+“We have also been trying to get land from private agencies, but it is difficult to get such plots at government rates,” said a senior police officer. At some places, porta-cabins have been set up on private land, though these are extremely uncomfortable during summer.
-===1971: The war that split Pakistan===
+Even IP Estate police station, which is at a stone’s throw from the police headquarters, operates out of a porta-cabin under a flyover and doesn’t have any parking facility. At Bindapur, cops are in a slightly better position as they will get a new building in February.
-[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/flashback-india71-and-its-milestones-through-the-times-of-indias-pages/august-15-1947-india-attains-independence/photostory/65403606.cms  August 14, 2018: ''The Times of India'']
-[[File: 1971- The war that split Pakistan.jpg|1971: The war that split Pakistan <br/> From: [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/flashback-india71-and-its-milestones-through-the-times-of-indias-pages/august-15-1947-india-attains-independence/photostory/65403606.cms  August 14, 2018: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
+Cops at Mundka have another problem — due to lack of connectivity in the area, their landline doesn’t work, and they use a mobile phone to take emergency calls. Officers at the station said the landline had got disconnected long ago.
-When Lt General JS Aurora accepted the unconditional surrender of Lt Gen. AAK Niazi in Dhaka after a 13-day war, it split Pakistan into half, recreated East Pakistan into a new country in the form of Bangladesh and gave India its finest military triumph.
+==February 2018/ Punjabi Bagh, best police station==
+[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F02%2F17&entity=Ar00600&sk=BD57144B&mode=text  Punjabi Bagh best police stn, February 17, 2018: ''The Times of India'']
-===June 25, 1975: India under emergency===
-[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/flashback-india71-and-its-milestones-through-the-times-of-indias-pages/august-15-1947-india-attains-independence/photostory/65403606.cms  August 14, 2018: ''The Times of India'']
-[[File: June 25, 1975- India under emergency.jpg|June 25, 1975- India under emergency <br/> From: [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/flashback-india71-and-its-milestones-through-the-times-of-indias-pages/august-15-1947-india-attains-independence/photostory/65403606.cms  August 14, 2018: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
+Punjabi Bagh was declared the best police station in Delhi, while Seelampur and K N Katju Marg secured second and third ranks in an audit conducted by Delhi Police. The results were declared in the presence of Union home minister Rajnath Singh during the 71st Raising Day parade organised at Kingsway Camp on Friday. The parameters were fixed in terms of service, people friendliness and infrastructure. While addressing Delhi Police officers during the event, Singh talked about minute details of policing. He asked Delhi Police to focus on smooth traffic flow alongside issuing challans and including people of Delhi in policing initiatives. He announced Rs 5 crore for the police martyr fund. The home minister also lauded Delhi Police for rescuing the five-year-old boy kidnapped from Shahdara.
+==April 2019/ Kashmere Gate police station declared best==
+[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F04%2F03&entity=Ar01016&sk=D623F996&mode=text  Kashmere Gate police station declared best in city by home min, April 3, 2019: ''The Times of India'']
-The declaration of Emergency was the darkest hour for India's democracy. It was lifted only in 1977, to be followed by a general election that saw the stunning defeat of Indira Gandhi, only for her to return back to power in 1980.
-===June 25, 1983: India win Cricket World Cup===
+The ministry of home affairs has declared Kashmere Gate police station in north district as the best in the city. The unit achieved this feat in the annual ranking assessment of police stations for 2018. Police commissioner Amulya Patnaik awarded the Certificate of Excellence to inspector Devender Kumar, the station house officer of Kashmere Gate.
-[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/flashback-india71-and-its-milestones-through-the-times-of-indias-pages/august-15-1947-india-attains-independence/photostory/65403606.cms  August 14, 2018: ''The Times of India'']
-[[File: June 25, 1983- India win Cricket World Cup.jpg|June 25, 1983: India win Cricket World Cup <br/> From: [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/flashback-india71-and-its-milestones-through-the-times-of-indias-pages/august-15-1947-india-attains-independence/photostory/65403606.cms  August 14, 2018: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
+The home ministry selected the best station on various parameters, including maintenance and cleanliness of the building, working out of heinous crimes, data uploaded on the network, workout percentage of cases and complaints of 2018, and disposal of inquiry reports of various complaints received from watchdogs.
-Kapil Dev's unfancied team came from nowhere to beat the mighty West Indies and lifted the Cricket World Cup in a magnificent triumph.
+Parameters like feedback about police conduct, maintenance of records and case property, and facilities available for visitors were also looked at while deciding the best station.
-===July 24, 1991: The budget that changed India===
+The police station has WiFi, which can be accessed by visitors by registering their ID at the front desk. Apart from designated barracks, it has a fitness area for policemen. It also provides newspapers and legal literature in the visitors’ room. It boasts of a well-maintained register of medico-legal cases and statements of witnesses in calls, standing orders and circulars, as well as list of absconders and deserters.
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-[[File: July 24, 1991- The budget that changed India.jpg|July 24, 1991: The budget that changed India <br/> From: [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/flashback-india71-and-its-milestones-through-the-times-of-indias-pages/august-15-1947-india-attains-independence/photostory/65403606.cms  August 14, 2018: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
+During the survey, MHA officials called complainants at all police stations and asked them about the behaviour of policemen.
-Manmohan's Singh's 1991 Budget kick-started the process of economic liberalization through reforms and opened up the country to the global economy.
+=Women=
+==Policing for women-related crimes==
+===2012-20===
+[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/spotlight/why-customer-service-management-is-critical-for-a-successful-business-strategy/articleshow/79719541.cms   Ariba Khaliq, December 15, 2020: ''The Times of India'']
-===1990: Mandal rocks the nation===
+[[File: Crimes against women in Delhi, 2012-20.jpg|Crimes against women in Delhi, 2012-20 <br/> From: [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/spotlight/why-customer-service-management-is-critical-for-a-successful-business-strategy/articleshow/79719541.cms   Ariba Khaliq, December 15, 2020: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
-[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/flashback-india71-and-its-milestones-through-the-times-of-indias-pages/august-15-1947-india-attains-independence/photostory/65403606.cms  August 14, 2018: ''The Times of India'']
-[[File: 1990- Mandal rocks the nation.jpg|1990: Mandal rocks the nation <br/> From: [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/flashback-india71-and-its-milestones-through-the-times-of-indias-pages/august-15-1947-india-attains-independence/photostory/65403606.cms  August 14, 2018: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
+NEW DELHI: It has been eight years since the horrific gang-rape and murder of a physiotherapy student — who came to be known as Nirbhaya — in south Delhi. 2020 is significant, for the year brought an end to the legal battle between the state and the convicts, who were hanged on March 20.
+The Nirbhaya case, however, did not just result in the hanging of the rapist-murderers. It also changed the way Delhi Police dealt with crimes against women.
-Prime Minister VP Singh's push to implement the Mandal Commission's recommendations, which asked for greater reservation for Other Backward Castes (OBCs) in government jobs and public universities, reshaped Indian politics, and unleashed protests by students across India.
-===December 6, 1992: Babri Masjid demolition===
+For one, registration of crime underwent a systemic change, leading to an increase in FIRs filed, from 706 in 2012 to a peak of 2,199 in 2015. This year was safer for women, with just 1,429 cases registered till October 31 against 1,884 last year in the same period.
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-[[File: December 6, 1992- Babri Masjid demolition.jpg|December 6, 1992: Babri Masjid demolition <br/> From: [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/flashback-india71-and-its-milestones-through-the-times-of-indias-pages/august-15-1947-india-attains-independence/photostory/65403606.cms  August 14, 2018: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
+Police commissioner S N Shrivastava is learnt to have emphasised a zero-tolerance policy in crimes against women, and joint commissioner- and deputy commissioner-rank officers oversee the investigation in these cases, pushing for timely arrests and filing of chargesheets.
-The Ram Janmabhoomi movement, over the disputed Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, significantly re-altered Indian politics forever. The legal dispute over the site remains sub-judice in the Supreme Court but the passions unleashed by the issue, on all sides, continue to reverberate politically.
+Serving and retired police officers agree that the December 16, 2012 event was a turning point for law enforcement in the city. Delhi Police underwent an overhaul at the grass-roots level and took a slew of measures. “From dedicated anti-stalking cells to self-defence training for women and Himmat Plus app for easy access to police, Delhi Police gave top priority to women’s safety. No jurisdictional dispute is allowed to delay police response to a complaint,” an officer claimed.
-===11-13, May 1998: India joins elite nuclear club===
+There is a change in the police attitude towards the complainant as well. “Cops are now conscious of the manner in which they talk to a survivor, record the complaint or elicit information,” the officer said. “And besides attending to emergencies, staff handling the 10 lines of 1091 helpline also provides counselling.”
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-[[File: 11-13, May 1998- India joins elite nuclear club.jpg|11-13, May 1998: India joins elite nuclear club <br/> From: [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/flashback-india71-and-its-milestones-through-the-times-of-indias-pages/august-15-1947-india-attains-independence/photostory/65403606.cms  August 14, 2018: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
+The case also led to the amendment of rape laws as recommended by the Justice JS Verma Commission set up after the Nirbhaya horror. After going through 80,000 submissions from the public, the commission accepted the need to punish rape, molestation and other sexual offences such as voyeurism with imprisonment up to seven years. Stalking or unwanted attempts to contact a person repeatedly was made punishable by a three-year jail sentence.
-India first exploded a peaceful nuclear device in 1974 but its five nuclear tests in May 1998, declaring it to be a nuclear power, were a turning point in India's engagement with the world.
+The amended laws made police duty-bound to assist rape survivors, starting with the immediate registration of an FIR on receiving a complaint. Now, women can also file online complaints. A slew of cases has already been registered based on email received by police. Women can also seek legal help from the police crisis cells. The growing awareness about legal remedies has resulted in more women reporting gender crimes.
-==1947 vis-à-vis 2018: comparisons; how India has changed==
-[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/1947-to-2018-india-at-a-glance/articleshow/65403694.cms  August 15, 2018: ''The Times of India'']
-[[File: How India changed- 1947-2018- population, highest grossing movie, cost of a movie ticket.jpg|How India changed- 1947 vis-à-vis 2018- <br/> population, <br/> highest grossing movie, <br/> cost of a movie ticket <br/> From: [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/1947-to-2018-india-at-a-glance/articleshow/65403694.cms  August 15, 2018: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
-[[File: How India changed, 1947-2018, mode of transport, shared transport, cost of shared transport.jpg|How India changed, 1947-2018- <br/> mode of transport, <br/> shared transport, <br/>cost of shared transport <br/> From: [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/1947-to-2018-india-at-a-glance/articleshow/65403694.cms  August 15, 2018: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
-[[File: How India changed, 1947-2018, what a litre of milk cost, gold price, exchange rate.jpg|How India changed, 1947-2018- <br/> what a litre of milk cost, <br/> gold price, <br/> exchange rate <br/> From: [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/1947-to-2018-india-at-a-glance/articleshow/65403694.cms  August 15, 2018: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
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-''How India changed- 1947 vis-à-vis 2018- <br/> population, <br/> highest grossing movie, <br/> cost of a movie ticket''
-''How India changed, 1947-2018- <br/> mode of transport, <br/> shared transport, <br/>cost of shared transport''
-''How India changed, 1947-2018- <br/> what a litre of milk cost, <br/> gold price, <br/> exchange rate''
-August 15, 2018 marked the 72nd Independence Day of India. In 1947, when India broke away from the shackles of British rule, things were quite different. In the course of seven decades, India has undergone a sea change. Here's a look at how the times and lives of Indians have changed since independence.
-===Changes between 2014 and 2019===
-[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F03%2F11&entity=Ar01310&sk=CB71DF79&mode=text   March 11, 2019: ''The Times of India'']
-[[File: Changes in the living standards of Indians between 2014 and 2019.jpg|Changes in the living standards of Indians between 2014 and 2019 <br/> From: [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F03%2F11&entity=Ar01310&sk=CB71DF79&mode=text   March 11, 2019: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
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-''Changes in the living standards of Indians between 2014 and 2019''
-Most fundamental factors of performance (e.g. life expectancy, literacy, per capita income) have improved almost without interruption since Independence, though pace of improvement has fluctuated widely through the terms of different governments. For instance, real per capita income growth in the past five years was higher than it was during UPA-II because rate of inflation has been consistently low since 2014. But job creation, especially in rural areas, is estimated to have fallen since 2016, partly reflected in the current consumer confidence. Here’s how India changed on a dozen randomly chosen economic factors since mid-2014
-==20 biggest tech milestones of independent India==
-[https://www.gadgetsnow.com/slideshows/17-biggest-tech-milestones-of-independent-inida/photolist/60077908.cms  August 15, 2018: ''Gadget Now: The Times of India'']
-India just celebrated its 72nd Independence Day. Over the last 70 years, the country has made its mark globally in a number of spheres. One of the most important among these is the technology industry. India's IT industry is a force to reckon with globally. Here we look at some of the biggest technology milestones of independent India ...
-. 1951: First Indian Institute of Technology set up at Kharagpur, West Bengal
-. 1954: Atomic Energy Establishment set up in Trombay for nuclear energy research. Renamed Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in 1967
-. 1958: Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) formed4 / 211958: Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) formed
-. 1959: Limited duration television programming begins
-. 1959: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research builds TIFR Automatic Computer, the first digital computer in India.6 / 211959: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research builds TIFR Automatic Computer, the first digital computer in India.
-. 1968: Tata Consultancy Services set up, offers punched card services7 / 211968: Tata Consultancy Services set up, offers punched card services
-. 1969:Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) established
-. 1970: Department of Electronics established to promote growth of electronics and computing
-. 1974: First successful nuclear bomb tested at Pokhran, Rajasthan
-. 1978: IBM exits India, opening up the sector to private sector companies like Wipro and HCL with the announcement of a minicomputer policy
-. 1981: Infosys is set up with a clear focus on providing outsourced IT services
-. 1983: Space Shuttle Challenger deploys INSAT-1B, kicking off Indian National Satellite System
-. 1986:Computerisation of Indian Railways seat reservation system by Indian programmers
-. 1991: Liberalisation results in abolition of import duty on computers used for software export; earnings made taxfree for 10 years. MNCs allowed to operate in India with 100% equity
-. 2008: ISRO launches Chandrayaan-1, India’s first lunar probe
-. 2013: Launch of India’s first interplanetary mission — Mangalyaan, or Mars Orbiter Mission
-. 2016: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) established by separating the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeITY) from the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
-. 1984: Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian to travel in space on April 2. He became the first Indian to reach space when he flew on board Soviet rocket Soyuz T-11 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.
-. 1991: The year India's very own first super computer called PARAM 8000 was born
-. 1995: The year when mobile phone services got inaugurated. The first mobile phone call was made by West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu to telecom minister Sukh Ram
-=2018: highlights=
-[[File: India- The highlights of 2018- I.jpg|India- The highlights of 2018- I <br/> From: [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F12%2F30&entity=Ar01500&sk=B46FEDBF&mode=image  December 30, 2018: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
-[[File: India- The highlights of 2018- II.jpg|India- The highlights of 2018- II <br/> From: [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F12%2F30&entity=Ar01500&sk=B46FEDBF&mode=image  December 30, 2018: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
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-''India- The highlights of 2018- I''
-''India- The highlights of 2018- II''
-==The highs and lows==
-[[File: The highs & lows of 2018.jpg|The highs & lows of 2018 <br/> From: [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F12%2F30&entity=Ar01507&sk=75F38072&mode=image  December 30, 2018: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
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-''The highs & lows of 2018''
-=2020=
-==Protests over farmer-oriented legislation==
-[[File: The highlights of the farmer-oriented legislation of 2020.jpg|The highlights of the farmer-oriented legislation of 2020. <br/> From: [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2020%2F09%2F23&entity=Ar01408&sk=53B995F6&mode=image  September 23, 2020: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
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-'' The highlights of the farmer-oriented legislation of 2020. ''
+As for stalking, cops said that all distress calls related to the crime are diverted to a special anti-stalking group. “The group follows up on the abusing number and deals with the aggressor in an effective manner. The cases are referred to the local police in real time,” the officer explained.
-=== Akali Dal walks out of NDA===
+Besides deploying all-women PCR vans, male and female cops in plainclothes are also posted outside school and colleges when classes begin and end. There is special patrolling of the risk-prone routes taken by women returning from entertainment hubs and malls, and the civic agencies are informed about poorly lit roads.
-[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2020%2F09%2F27&entity=Ar00516&sk=020DA16B&mode=text  After quitting govt, BJP’s ‘oldest ally’ Akali Dal walks out of NDA, September 27, 2020: ''The Times of India'']
-After quitting govt, BJP’s ‘oldest ally’ Akali Dal walks out of NDA
-Chandigarh:
+==2018: women DCPs in 4 of 13 districts ==
+[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F08%2F30&entity=Ar00605&sk=C5719B95&mode=text  Rajshekhar Jha, In a first, 4 of 13 districts to have women DCPs, August 30, 2018: ''The Times of India'']
-Shiromani Akali Dal announced its decision to break its 24-year-old alliance with BJP less than 10 days after it pulled out of PM Narendra Modi’s government with the resignation of Harsimrat Kaur Badal over the passage of three agrimarketing bills in Parliament.
-The alliance between SAD and BJP, formed just after the parliamentary elections of 1996, had increasingly seemed untenable as the party was facing immense pressure from its main vote base, the farmers, to completely cut ties with BJP. The party was on the backfoot in Punjab, where spontaneous protests against the agri-marketing bills led by farmers had the party worried about its future, especially as both the governing Congress party and the opposition Aam Aadmi Party were highlighting the Badal family’s so-called reluctance to quit the alliance with BJP.
+After reshuffle in Delhi Police, four out of the 13 districts in the capital will have women DCPs, a first for Delhi.
+While the new deputy commissioner of police (DCP), Monika Bhardwaj, will be in charge of the west district, Aslam Khan, Meghna Yadav and Nupur Prasad are already heading northwest, Shahdara and north districts.
-'''BJP ignored its oldest ally, laments Badal'''
+A 2009-batch officer, Khan is known to be a daredevil officer who doesn’t mince words. Coming from Rajsthan, she has never hesitated in taking on the corrupt. During her stint as the superintendent of police in the Andamans, Khan had exposed corruption in Port Blair Municipal Council and arrested at least eight government officials, including a traffic cop, for taking bribe.
-SAD’s decision to pull out of the NDA was decided unanimously at an emergency meeting of its core committee, the party’s highest decision-making body. After the three-hour meeting, SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal said his party was BJP’s oldest ally but the Modi government did not listen to it on honouring the sentiments of farmers. He described the three agrimarketing bills as “lethal and disastrous for the already beleaguered farmers”.
+Recently, Khan deposited half of her monthly salary in the account of the family of a truck driver from Jammu who was killed during a robbery bid in her jurisdiction. She also promised to bear all educational expenses of his children. Her husband, Pankaj Singh, is heading the east district in Delhi.
-The party said it had quit the alliance in protest against the three agri-marketing bills and the Centre’s “stubborn” refusal to give statutory legislative guarantees to protect assured marketing of farmers’ crops at the MSP and for the Centre’s continued “insensitivity” towards the Punjabi language and issues of the Sikh community.
+Bhardwaj, a 2009-batch officer from Rohtak in Haryana, has served in units like the police control room (PCR) and as additional DCP in west and southwest districts. The soft-spoken Bhardwaj is known for her honesty and righteousness. Her colleagues say she is closely involved in the operations and has a nose for minute details. Fairly active on Twitter, she regularly posts updates about her area.
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+Prasad, a JNU alumnus who comes from Bihar, is a 2007-batch officer who was the DCP of Shahdara district before taking charge of the north district. An officer who has closely worked with Prasad described her as having unshakeable integrity and composure. “She has unflinching support for subordinates and is a straight talker,” the officer said.
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+Yadav, from Delhi, is also a 2007-batch officer who will head a district for the first time. Known for being an action-oriented officer, she and her team, during her stint in Daman, had exposed an extortion racket involving IPS and other police officials of the department and arrested them. In 2012, she had made headlines after she wrote to the Delhi high court to protest against ill-treatment allegedly meted out to her by a judicial officer. Yadav’s husband, Seju Kuruvilla, is the DCP of outer district in Delhi. Police commissioner Amulya Patnaik has also posted officers like Esha Pandey as DCP in the special police unit for women and children, Varsha Sharma as DCP in the economic offences wing and Geeta Rani Verma as DCP in the traffic unit.
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