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Police reforms

The Supreme Court's directives to the Union and State governments on time-bound actions to initiate the much delayed but widely desired police reforms have come not a minute too late. A window of opportunity has been opened both for the politicians and the police forces to depoliticise the force and make the police true servants of the law and not of the party in power. It will be interesting to see how different political parties that have tasted power, either in the States or at the Centre, react to the latest directives of the apex court. It is the fervent hope of all law-abiding citizens that neither the police nor the political forces will fail us yet again.

A. Arjunan,
Bangalore

The Supreme Court has outlined an excellent road map to streamline the police department. Before granting freedom and autonomous status to the police care should, however, be taken to flush out the bad apples.

J.V. Reddy,
Nellore, A.P.

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