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Why Indian police forces are not good at curbing riots

The Times Of India Podcast

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The Disadvantages of a Neutral Police

You've spoken in the past about the sort of partisan behavior of the police. How difficult is it for us to have a neutral police and what would we need to do for that? This comes from the same society, a castable is recruited at the age of 1819; an IPS officer is recruited at 22-23. By that time he has a very big baggage on his shoulders and he carries that baggage with him in the service. So unless we unload it through training interventions, through other positive indications, we tell them that since the moment you started wearing khaki, you cease to be a Hindu or Muslim," she says.

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