Episode 02 : Police

A Broken System (Part 2)

Almost 92% of the police force is made up of constables. According to Anuradha Shankar, Inspector General, Indore, they are the most disempowered in the police force—they’re overworked, underpaid, live in cramped quarters, rarely see family and must work as orderlies for their seniors. Can we really expect them to be sensitive to the public? Former DGP of Jharkhand Shivaji Mahan Caire adds that constables are made to do agricultural work on lands owned by their seniors, and Sanjay Pandey DIG of RPF in Maharashtra, talks about the corruption within the police which further disadvantages constables. Moving on to investigation, retired Inspector General of Police S. R. Darapuri says that the police resort to the use of force instead of using evidence, one reason why the rates of torture and death in police custody in India are so high. Finally, psychiatrist Dr Harish Shetty talks about the psychological effects of such difficult working conditions, which make the police violent towards others and themselves.

  

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