The quality of service that people get at grass roots from the police is disatisfying.
There is a need to transform the police from a traditional outfit into a modern force to upgrade delivery of its service.
What are the issues with Indian police force?
Political interference.
Lack of professionalism.
Lack of audit by dedicated committee.
Lack of infrastructure investment
Lack of community support.
No counter cyber-attack skills
How to professionalise the police department?
Brainstorming problems of maintaining public order and combating conventional crime.
Making plans to acquire a fresh mind-set to cope with the needs of a society under attack.
Improvising the manpower and use of new technology.
Implementation of scientific approaches like evidence based policing in every day policing activities.
What is evidence based policing (EBP)?
Evidence-based policing was a movement launched in the U.S and the U.K.,
It emphasizes the value of statistical analysis and empirical research.
When left alone to practice individually, officers often act upon their own perception of the facts, which often turn out to be wrong.
EBP rectifies this by stressing to work based on statistics, changing practices and measuring the success of those changes with risk-adjusted outcomes.
e.g One strategy is identifying ‘hot spots’ of crime and spotting problematic individuals in a community.
The Prediction task requires an analysis of events which are either crimes by themselves or border on crimes defined by law.
There are certain geographic areas in each police jurisdiction which report more incidents than others.
EBP goes beyond statistics and pinpoints the time and opportunities presented to a potential offender.
Monitoring behavioural patterns of a class of individuals who had come to the adverse notice of law enforcement is a logical way to predict whether they will again lapse into crime.
