Community Policing Experiments in India

摘要

The Indian Police Act came in to being as an organized force in 1861 to maintenance of law and order problems. In India, except some states others are facing the problems of increasing crime rate day by day. The main reason for that is the public, police ratio. Due to the increasing population the number of police persons is insufficient. In such situation the police cannot control, the crime easily and the public raises the finger on the working of the police. The second reason for increasing crime is the lack of faith of public on the police. People do not report for the crime thinking that police will not do anything which boosts up the moral of the criminals. Both the reasons are very justified the situation gets more critical in the rural areas. The current policing system involves the delivery of law enforcement services to the community which has been reactive also. It believes in responding to calls for police service. The interactions of police with the citizen is thus mostly of an emergency nature where crimes are reported, police than comes into action. This paper discusses the community policing experiments in India.