The police system in Indiasprings from the Police Act of 1861. This was a statute created by the British in the immediate aftermath of the uprising of 1857. the field of executive police functions is enormous and covers all branches of civil administration. It has to protect human life, property, honour, religion and everything that man has created out of his constructive genius. It has to restrain everything that degrades or destroys or arrests its progress. And ...
