Any effort to strengthen national security without reforming the police would be futile | The Indian Express

Any effort to strengthen national security without reforming the police would be futile | The Indian Express

Written by Prakash Singh |Updated: June 6, 2019 7:47:36 am

The writer is chairman, Indian Police Foundation.

Any effort to strengthen national security without reforming the police would be futile

It is also high time that the government thinks of bringing police in the Concurrent List. Police problems were simpler and of a local nature when the Constitution was framed. Since then, the pattern of crime and the dimensions of law and order problems have undergone a sea change.

Terror clouds are gathering on the horizon and could burst upon the Subcontinent any time.

The country’s internal security architecture continues to be fragile. In the wake of the 26/11 terrorist attack in 2008, a slew of measures were taken to strengthen the police forces, reinforce coastal security and decentralise the deployment of National Security Guard. However, after that, a complacency of sorts seems to have set in, mainly because there has been no major terrorist attack since then. Whatever upgradation of police has happened during the intervening period has essentially been of a cosmetic nature.