Overhaul policing system to arrest the alarming human rights violations by police

Overhaul policing system to arrest the alarming human rights violations by police The Indian government should take major steps to overhaul a policing system that facilitates and even encourages human rights violations, Human Rights Watch said in a report released in Lucknow on 7 August 2009 at UP Press Club. For decades, successive governments have failed to deliver on promises to hold the police accountable for abuses and to build professional, rights-respecting police forces, according to the report ‘ Broken System: Dysfunction, Abuse, and Impunity in the Indian Police .’ The report launch was organized by ‘Uttar Pradesh Shehri Gharib Kaamgar Sangharsh Morcha’, People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) and Human Rights Watch . “This 118-page report – Broken System: Dysfunction, Abuse, and Impunity in the Indian Police – documents a range of human rights violations committed by police, including arbitrary arrest and detention, torture and extrajudicial killings. The report is based on interviews with more than 80 police officers of varying ranks, 60 victims of police abuses, and numerous discussions with experts and civil society activists. It documents the failings of state police forces that operate outside the law, lack sufficient ethical and professional standards, are overstretched and outmatched by criminal elements, and unable to cope with increasing demands and public expectations

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