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With the accrescent demands for limited resources of the Earth and concomitant
concours for survival in the world of the survival of the fittest, the advent of the new
advancements, systemic and structural changes in society and spurts in criminal activities
is likely to provide the paramenters of the coming age and determine the quality of life in
the coming century. The police, as the custodians and enforcers of the safety of life and
property, have to move pari passu with the time for perficient handling of the emerging
situation. They cannot afford to adapt to challenges as and when they are posed as in
challenges and deriving means to checkmate them in advance form the basic tenets of
good policing and are sine qua non with the survival of the country and its peaceful life.
minimal visible presence. This means a far more professional organisation than now.
This means far more skilled policing than now. This means better management of the
police organisation, better equipped force, men of higher calibre and devotion to work
field of human activity in social and national life. Security duties are increasingly
encompassing ceremonial objectives. Traffic and law and order police are more and
more replayed to add grandeur and humour to private functions of the well-to-do and
powerful. The presence of the police is becoming more a matter of prestige and social
standing in society than an emergent need of protection. The police are now called to
mediate and solve familial problems, labour disputes and case and communal differences.
People call them now to intervene in their differences with others, expect them to handle
rescue operations during natural accidental and man-made calamities. Their services are
warranted to bring order wherever and whenever things go wrong at public as well as
private events with unending number of acts, rules and their amendments passed every
year by the legislatures. This wide use of the police in the vast spectrum of the statecraft
rendered it jack of all and master of none. The transformation blunted the effectiveness
of the police in handling its cardinal duties of providing security, maintenance of order
ruthlessness and derring-do. Reality is not very different from this image. The situation
certainly does not do in the future complex societal network as the breeding ground for
complicated criminal activities warranting skilled and intelligent policing. The Police of
the 21st century have to be manned by highly intelligent and brainy species of men should
it be feracious in meeting challenges and showing results. The change, apart from
improving the quality of policing, will bring respect to the job in addition to the present
awe and fear, the police inspire. An overhaul of selection and training policies to infuse
and buildup mental and intellectual strains in the manpower of the police should be the
bedrock of the efforts to snod the organisation to meet the challenges of the future.
The paramount need of the future police is a professional image tout au contraire
definition of police duties and responsibilities and relegating the force to perform the
duties under the avizefull eyes of the constitution without the distractions of
interferences ab extra. The police should have free hand to tackle and solve issues
cropping up during the process of policing with concomitant responsibility for any
Hi-tech policing is another imperative of the 21st century. Police cannot afford to
lose ground to criminals in the field of hi-tech. Efficiency of policing is pro rata to
competence necessarily implies moving pari passu with the fast changing hi-tech
The growth of police in the 20th century is marked by its insulation from the
intellectual explosions of the age. Police is seldom touched by the zeist geist. Policing
methods and ideas remained stagnant throughout the century sans effective voice raised
to infuse new spirit to the body of the police. The century saw no concrete and concerted
efforts to bring crime investigation on modern lines. The problem of human rights
violations remained a major blot on the policing process throughout the century. Use of
third degree methods in interrogations sullied the image of the police in a century which
brought revolutionary changes in the concepts of human dignity, equality, justice for all
and basic rights. The image of the police in the 20thcentury is that of a licensed criminal
Indian legislatures churn out new legislations and bring out amendments threeon
in such numbers and festination that neither those legislatures nor the police who
enforce them can afford to keep a track of the enactments and their provisions. This
Achilles’ heel in the law enforcement machinery will perforce disappear in years ahead.
distinct from the body police. The community Police require skills different from those
in general policing owing to the special nature of the social legislations and special
sensitivities of its enforcement. The huge share of the social legislations among new
enactments and the gargantuan task of enforcing them is another justification for
creating a separate community police wing out of the present police. The measure will
relieve the body police from lots of work-pressures and provide it spare time and energy
prompt responses and quick decisions vis a vis the complex nature of emerging crimes
cannot do for long with the extant system of the police and the prosecution pulling apart
The key to the success of the police is its response time, the speed with which it
responds to the challenges of the crime. Where time is a precious commodity and a
difference of a couple of seconds make the difference of success and failure of a police
operation, persistent efforts to shorten response time will get the highest priority. The
thrust of the police administration of the next millennium will be directed to bettering the
response time as speed will be the mainstay of crimes and criminals of the coming age.
Short response time implies improved communication and transport network and highly
and transport facilities in disrepair conditions most of the time have no relevance there
and casual manpower is rather passe in that ambience. The millennium will see the
police force in the finest fettle in terms of orgtanisation, manpower and equipments and
The 21st century police will be required to shed to idee fixe for the show of
strength in lieu of efficient policing. The stress in future will be on lean and fit policing.
The structural deformity and oveweight caused by redundant posts, undefined jobs, lack
face gargantuan challenges from criminals posing threat to the raison d’etre of the police
Going hi-tech to match the gauntlets of the crime world is another possibility
open for the police of the 21st century. The age will see the needs of investigation process
expanding the horizons of science and technology rather than the other way round. Gene
tests will become a strategic and commonly employed tool of investigation against
crimes relating to bodily harm, paternity and even bodily associations. Laser guns will
come handy in handling violent law and order issues. Night-vision instruments will
become an essential part of the investigation and security operations kits to be handled
by every policeman. The age may see police using eaves-dropping instruments to
overhear unsuspecting people from distance. “X-ray eyes’ aid viewing across walls or
closed doors. Computers will become an integral part of the routine as well as special
police works and police stations. Police may see software devised to guide investigating
officers in investigating every kind of crime at every level. Helicopters and mini-
teams, deployment of security staff and airlifting armed forces to disturbed places as time
force with even its bottom levels being manned by highly qualified, skilled and
enlightened professionals as a result of the pampering ahead for the police in the
administrative hierarchy. Constabulary will be spruced to striking forces and manual
works without policing powers. With it, may go the pernicious misuse of the
linear promotions from the lowest to the highest ranks on the basis of merit and actual
mobilisation or raising of new units under every new challenge will give way to
perficient strategies and tactics. The present tendency of doing minimum required in a
wastage of manpower. The 21st century will require every single policeman straining his
best with a sense of motivation and commitment in the interests of superior policing.
hierarchy postualted by Maslow. Pride of performance can be a reality only while lower
physical, security and social needs cease to be issues. Indian police planners have no
alternatives to grooming the police manpower of the next century to this level of sans
souci. This means good living conditions, job security and sound social status. The
police must find a respectable place in the hierarchy of state administration and shed
away the extant obnoxious image of odd-job-man of the government as well as political
leaders to inspire awe and respect in the hoi polloi. The transformation is sine qua non
Creating a self-contained police machinery in place of the present mere nuts and
bolts of the administration is cardinal need ahead. The nasty political and bureaucratic
interferences in professional policing have done no good to the country and its police in
the last five decades. Insulating the police from the vice prise of ectogenetic pressures
and influences needs to be a reality in the coming decades should the police have
relevance in the governance of the country. This is possible only by the metamorphosis
of the police to an independent body with goals and objectives perspicuously defined
and laid down. The new police have to be responsible only to the constitution through a
mental attributes and chosen from academic, bureaucratic and political fields as well as
public life. The change may bring a semblance of justice and fairplay to administration
and ipso facto infuse a value system to Indian public life and bring the fear of god to
force strict adherence to probity and the rule of law in public life. India has no alternative
to this metamorphosis should the country survive the moral crisis and degringolade of