Editorial
Atrocious!
Such behaviour needs to be reformed
Regrettably, police excesses are taking newer forms. This time some men members of the force were seen pouncing on women demonstrators, grabbing them indecently and hustling them without any regard for modesty during last Thursday's hartal. Instead of female police members why men members got involved at all beats both rationale and sanity. Undoubtedly, it was crass effrontery to all norms we nurture to keep the institutions running in harmony in civil society. And we condemn such excesses committed by some members of the police force on little or no provocation. The incident of the police contingent losing cool while confronting women political activists raises questions about the standard of training they have received at state expense. They seem to get intimidated too easily and too soon on the roads and become inexplicably violent and vengeful. Surely crowd control does not mean beating people up mercilessly to unconsciousness. People are apprehensive that unless vested quarters stopped using the police in their selfish interest the social fabric would fall apart very soon. Therefore, we feel it is time the political authority stepped in to intervene and infuse some sense of responsibility and discipline in the police if public confidence is to be restored in them. We think mere suspension or closure of an official or two will not do. It calls for drastic corrective measures. It is time the police high ups talked more frequently on human rights and women rights to the members of the force so that such regrettable incidents can be avoided in the future. We also feel that to make the members more efficient the entire training module needs to be recast to instill sense of human rights in to the police force.
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