7 steps must to end crisis in police force; Retd sr officers

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Some retired senior police officers have suggested that cases being filed over the tecent killing of students and people might not deliver the desires results unless these are properly done. 

The way the cases have been filed give those political colour rather than substance that need to establish genuine cases of crime.

They point out that out of about 650 killing cases, bodies of at least 100 victims were buried without post mortem and these will be difficult to prove. Cases on those killings against which there are autopsy reports, should primarily charge the OCs, relevant SIs and ASIs and then those from upper levels for ordering those.

Only by ensuring this cases can be proved at the trial stage to punish the perpetrators. Only such cases, not political cases, will be recognized by the UN and its human rights rights office.

Some senior retired police officers sympathetic to the student-led revolution have prepared a set of recommendations for dealing with the prevailing crisis in the Police force. 

The retd senior police officers who include former IGs have recommended 7 steps to overcome the crisis in the police force: These are:

“Steps recommended for restructuring the police forces and other concrete

actions to bring under control the present crisis

“1. Immediate activation of the Thanas (Police Stations) with placement of new sets of Officers and Forces. These officials can be drawn from the pool of CID, SB and other investigating agencies. The existing incumbents of the police force should be withdrawn.

“2. The key posts like Metropolitan Police Commissioners, Range DIGs, Chiefs of SB, RAB, APBN and one Additional IG at the Police HQ should be immediately replaced by officials on which the Government may have confidence and whose loyalty will not be a major concern. Meritorious police officers earlier superseded should be placed in these positions. In order to help the IGP, a Senior Advisor with national and international police background should be immediately recruited.

“3. All Chief Judicial Magistrates and cognizance Magistrates in Districts and Metropolitan areas will have to be replaced.

“4. New, trusted and competent officers should take over as the district SPs and Deputy Police Commissioners in-charge of the Crime Division.

“5. The Citizens Cooperation Committee should immediately be formed at the Thana level who will mobilize the public support for the newly constituted police force and representatives of other law enforcing agencies.

“6. Immediate actions to be taken at the local level:

“a) The stolen/ lost/ looted weapons should be recovered and accounted for with documentation.

“b) OCs should go personally to the houses of Shahids (Martyrs) and record of the FIR.

“c) Disposal of the false cases registered during the present movement.

 “7. The structural and personnel deployments should be completed within 72 hours.”