Nagpur: Former commissioner of police Ankush Dhanvijay, an IPS officer of 1982-batch, is miffed about the back-to-back attacks on police in city previous this week. The cop-turned-lawyer, who retired in 2012, mentioned society can not eliminate the police and citizens should display admire to the pressure that sacrifices such a lot for them. Excerpts from interview:
Q. What is your reaction to the repeated attacks on police in city?
A. Imagine a busy junction in city without traffic police for an hour and what a motorist would go through. One should also know a traffic police places in Eight-10 hours of responsibility at the street standing incessantly amid vehicular traffic breathing in smoke and air pollution in the warmth of Nagpur before even pondering of raising their hands on her or him. Citizens should admire the regulation and the cops who enforce the regulation for the good thing about all. There isn't any alternative to this.
Q. What must police do in this type of scenario?
A. The incumbent CP (BK Upadhyay) has already vowed to take strict action in opposition to the perpetrators. I'd recommend seizing the vehicles of those focused on the police. Seizing is prison because the automobile is the reason for action. Examine the information of perpetrators, then apply up with preventive and different exemplary movements. There may be want of introspection and senior officers should analyze the incident and take corrective movements.
Q. What must police do to keep away from violent confrontations?
A. They must be courteous. Should take action but keep away from high-handedness. There is a distinction between being strict and being rude. There isn't any wish to get into argument while challaning someone. The cops must send a strong and transparent message that if there’s a violation, a challan could be issued.
Q. What must citizens do if cops are at the flawed side?
A. First, they must keep away from taking regulation into their own hand. One must way senior officers in case there's any high-handedness or different grievance. Have consider and religion. No different department penalizes it’s personal group of workers as harshly as we do. We rebuke, reprimand, stop increments, suspend, transfer and even brush aside on every occasion faults come to fore. Citizens must know the way we take disciplinary movements in opposition to our personal colleagues. They must display some admire and give a boost to.
Q. What must the police chief do in such situations?
A. The city can not have a extra positive pondering CP than the existing one (Upadhyay) with regards to public relations, pro-citizen way and benevolent measures. He believes in rapport between police and public. I'm sure he would rather look into the problems that every CP should do and take corrective measures.
Q. What is your reaction to the repeated attacks on police in city?
A. Imagine a busy junction in city without traffic police for an hour and what a motorist would go through. One should also know a traffic police places in Eight-10 hours of responsibility at the street standing incessantly amid vehicular traffic breathing in smoke and air pollution in the warmth of Nagpur before even pondering of raising their hands on her or him. Citizens should admire the regulation and the cops who enforce the regulation for the good thing about all. There isn't any alternative to this.
Q. What must police do in this type of scenario?
A. The incumbent CP (BK Upadhyay) has already vowed to take strict action in opposition to the perpetrators. I'd recommend seizing the vehicles of those focused on the police. Seizing is prison because the automobile is the reason for action. Examine the information of perpetrators, then apply up with preventive and different exemplary movements. There may be want of introspection and senior officers should analyze the incident and take corrective movements.
Q. What must police do to keep away from violent confrontations?
A. They must be courteous. Should take action but keep away from high-handedness. There is a distinction between being strict and being rude. There isn't any wish to get into argument while challaning someone. The cops must send a strong and transparent message that if there’s a violation, a challan could be issued.
Q. What must citizens do if cops are at the flawed side?
A. First, they must keep away from taking regulation into their own hand. One must way senior officers in case there's any high-handedness or different grievance. Have consider and religion. No different department penalizes it’s personal group of workers as harshly as we do. We rebuke, reprimand, stop increments, suspend, transfer and even brush aside on every occasion faults come to fore. Citizens must know the way we take disciplinary movements in opposition to our personal colleagues. They must display some admire and give a boost to.
Q. What must the police chief do in such situations?
A. The city can not have a extra positive pondering CP than the existing one (Upadhyay) with regards to public relations, pro-citizen way and benevolent measures. He believes in rapport between police and public. I'm sure he would rather look into the problems that every CP should do and take corrective measures.
‘Citizens should respect the law and cops should be courteous’
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February 17, 2019
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