National Police Commission : Issues for Rethinking James Vadackumchery

National Police Commission appointed in 1977 after the internal ernergency in India- brought out eight reports touching many as- pects in police. After the Indian Police Com- mission: 1902-03, it was the first time that a Commission was appointed at a national level to study police and policing in a Country which became independent and democratic in 1947. The Commission made several recommen- dations to improve the police in India, but many Governments which came into power subsequently did not pay any attention to the full implementation of the recommendations of the Commission. The reasons for not imple- menting the recommendations were not po- litical alone. The sad fate and tragedy had been that the reports were lying in the ar- chives till yesterday. In the mean time, a pub- lic interest litigation was filed in the Supreme Court of India with a prayer to give direction to the Central Government to immediately implement the recommendations of the Na- tional Police Commission. The Government of India now express the desire to implement some of the recommendations. A question is here raised-i.e., for what?

This book evaluates the recommenda- tions of the National Police Commission from many angles and concepts which have de- veloped in the recent past. The police in In- dia-when she celebrates her golden jubi- lee of independence- is a part of the inter- national police and the concepts that guided the police during nineteen seventies can not and should not now rule the police during the 21st Century. The book gives illuminating in- sights into the issues for a rethinking for In- dian police. The book will be of interest to any one who is concerned with policing the po- lice, policing the society, policing the democ- racy and wants to make the Indian police a part of the world police today. The book is unique in many aspects.