The author very critically and analytically examines the various aspects of the policing in Indian context. The book also briefly, but lucidly deals with the police force and policing in United States, Britain, Australia and Latin America. Brutality and torture of accused by the police is very evidently depicted. The reality and illusion about the crime control is very evidently partitioned. The author also managed to detect the various obstacles being faced by the police force in the area of free investigation and how their confidence and morale are eroded. The book also maps out the ways for police force to tackle and combat the terrorists and terrorism in very effective manner. The need of the proper training for the police force is also stressed very rightly. The author also thinks in line with those argue that the police force should be given autonomy to enhance accountability to public and concerned authority. The unnecessary adversary between press and police force is corroborated by the author very convincingly.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sanker Sen
Sanker Sen, former Director-General, National Human Rights Commission and former Director of the SVP National Police Academy, joined the Indian Police Service in 1960. He graduated from the Presidency College, Calcutta and obtained a Master's degree from the Calcutta University. He was allotted to Orissa Cadre and held there many important assignments with distinction. He had a spell of about seven years in the Central Intelligence Bureau. On promotion he went back to the State and joined as DIG of Police, Western Range, Rourkela. He was then posted as DIG, incharge of the Criminal Investigation Department in Orissa. He joined Border Security Force as the inspector General in 1987 and was later on promoted as the additional Director General. There-after, he was posted as the Director of the SVP National Police Academy, the premier institution for training of senior police officers of the country. As the Director of the NPA he was responsible for many innovative changes in the training programmes of the police officers. He was awarded the Police Medal for Meritorious Severice in 1979 and President's Police Medal for Distinguished Service in 1986. On completion of his assignment in NPA he joined as the Director-General of the National Human rights Commission and later on functioned as the Special Rapporteur, incharge of the custodial programme of the NHRC. His books "Police Today" and "Human Rights in a Developing Society" won acclaim from the academics, experts in the field of law-enforcement as well as human rights activists.
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