It is a volume based on field research backed by extensive reading and study of literature on the subject and interlaced with the wide and long experience of one of the authors, S.A. Khan. The distinctive feature of the book is that it is a socio-psychological study. The authors make use of advances in psychology, sociology and other sciences in their analysis and suggest a course of action by drawing on their insights. There is no mechanistic approach to the subject. I may mention that it is not a book to glance through casually. It provokes thinking and one has to grasp the implications of concepts and their applicability in the context of the police. It is a refreshing book and merits careful study. It is a good guide and training manual for training of the police officers, particularly at the grassroots level. Many of the insights provided in their analysis by the authors can be useful to certain other categories of public services with their own strains and stresses. If applied imaginatively.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Anuradha Bhandari
Dr. Anuradha Bhandari, B.A. (Hon.), M.A. and Ph.D. (Psychology), is a Professor, Department of Psychology, Punjab University, Chandigarh, India. Her professional areas of interest include Health Psychology, Life Span Developmental Psychology, Child Psychopathology, Women and Police Studies. She has over two decades of teaching and research experience. Besides three dozen research papers to her credit, supervision of nine awarded PhDs, she has contributed extensively towards books, abstracts and articles. Her outreach activities have included many workshops for professional groups, women and children, and more than forty extension lectures. This includes police training programmes in Police Training Colleges in HImachal Pradesh, and prison functionary courses at Regional Institute of Correctional Administration, Chandigarh. As a part of her professional work, she is involved in training and developing educational material for various organizations. She is often sought out to comment on the psychological perspective of current social development issues in various discussion groups and the media. Anuradha is widely travelled and has been contributing in national and international conferences, projects, seminars and workshops. She is actively involved in several community based social welfare projects for the elderly, women and children.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S A Khan
S.A. Khan, Indian Police Service (1970) Haryana has had a distinguished career in the Indian Police. He was awarded Presidents Police Medal for Meritorious Service in August 1988 and six more service medals. He has over three decades of research experience starting September 1977 when he joined the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies as a visiting fellow (1977-1979). He has been actively involved in comparative studies in the universities of Yale, Denver, Salt Lake and Jacksonville and associated with eminent Psychologists/Sociologists such as H.J. Eysenck, Tony Doob, and David Bayley. He has been involved in facilitating management development courses at the National Police Academy, Hyderabad, Police Training colleges in Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh etc. He has also been a facilitator for the training programmes at Institutes of Management, Defence Institute of Technology Management Mussoorie and orientation programmes for women councellors of Punjab under British Council. He has presented the Police Functionary Profile at BPR&D, Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences and National Human Rights Commission, New Delhi. He has been Chairman, Mewat Development agency for more than 03 years under United Nations funding for child literacy, women empowerment, reproductive child health, self help groups, and milk cooperatives for poverty alleviation and other off-farm activities.
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