A major drive to expand the police force is under way and the government contends that "United Nations norms" on the police-population ratio have to be met. Are its arguments justified?
COMMENTARY
False Proposition on the Strength of the Police Force
use to suppress insurgencies. Yet, when the demand is made to augment the police force, it is not clear if the d emand is for expansion of the civil police or for the armed police. Which expansion is the Union
Home Secretary referring to? While the UN
Gautam Navlakha
speaks of a civil police- people ratio in India
A major drive to expand the police force is under way and the government contends that “United Nations norms” on the police-population ratio have to be met. Are its arguments justified?
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