‘Police recruitment mired in corruption’
Highlighting the extent of “corruption” in police recruitments across the country, home secretary G.K. Pillai on Monday said that police recruitment is “mired in corruption” in most states and aspirants do not get recruited as constables or sub-inspectors unless “money is paid”.
Mr Pillai said that police reforms in the country will gather momentum with the introduction of the Draft Delhi Police Bill, 2010 in Parliament. With the Union home ministry at the helm of initiating police reforms, Mr Pillai said that the model Delhi police (bill) has not yet been followed in the capital thus spelling the need for it to hasten the process. “We hope to correct this (the pace of police reforms) by bringing about a model Delhi Police Bill ... Since Delhi has not followed it and in one sense the ministry of home affairs has not given leadership to this, I think many states do not have a model to follow,” he adding, “the will power has to be shown from Delhi itself.” The model bill, aimed at effecting comprehensive reforms in Delhi police, is expected to be placed in the forthcoming Budget Session.
“In every state almost, today police recruitment is mired in corruption. People do not get recruited as constables or sub-inspectors unless money is paid and therefore the first level at which you have to stop corruption is at this recruitment process,” Mr Pillai said while speaking at the foundation day ceremony of the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD) here.
However, Union home secretary praised the ‘’transparent’’ recruitment process in Uttar Pradesh . “I am happy to state that in Uttar Pradesh ... 39,000 constables were recruited, I think in a very transparent and merit-based manner,” he said adding that such best practices should be followed by all. Mr Pillai also said that the training of policemen in states is “really not upto the mark.”
Mr Pillai voiced concern over government postings in research agencies like the BPR&D being treated as “punishment posting” by police officials. “People do not want to come here. It is not a prize posting,” he said. BPRD, the national agency undertaking research for modernisation of police forces, is headed by Vikram Srivastava. Mr Srivastava was moved out from CRPF to head the research agency in October this year. Incidentally, the former CRPF DG had come under attack after the Dantewada massacre by Maoists in which 75 CRPF men lost their lives in April. Mr Pillai said there is no doubt that the police force in the country is ‘’abused and degraded.”
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