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It is a lesson new policemen in India learn early on: they are in charge of everything except perhaps the weather. Their duties range from maintaining law and order and investigating crime to rounding up beggars and disposing of unclaimed bodies.
This situation has come about because the responsibility for internal security in India is fragmented and lies with the different state police forces without a substantive role for the Centre. This glaring chink in ...
A compilation of writings and lectures by V. Balachandran, a former Special Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India, during the last 15 years, the volume explores aspects of India’s national security. It discusses the flaws in the present system security, intelligence process and policing in India which is yet to reform its intelligence, security and police apparatus. Pointing out that there has been no worthwhile reforms for decades in ...