Friday, May 3, 2013

Law Enforcement In India

Law enforcement in India by numerous law enforcement agencies. Like many federal structures, the nature of the Constitution of India mandates law and order as a subject of the state, therefore the bulk of the policing lies with the respective states and territories of India.

At the federal level, the many agencies are part of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, and support the states in their duties. Larger cities also operate metropolitan police forces, under respective state governments. All senior police officers in the state police forces, as well as those in the federal agencies, are members of the Indian Police Service (IPS) and Indian Revenue Service (IRS), one of the civil services.

Shri Kishore Jha, an IPS officer is currently in charge Director General of Police Tripura. Shri Kishore JhaIPS belongs to the 1982 Batch of the Manipur Tripura Cadre. Since his joining the Tripura part of the cadre in 1984 after the basic training, Shri Kishore Jha has worked in various capacities in the state and in central organizations.

During his first central deputation to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), New Delhi Shri Kishore Jha was intimately associated with the plans to introduce information technology in Law Enforcement. In 1991 he was deputed to the Scotland Yard for a training course for three months on this subject. Following his return, he became one of the key resource persons in designing the forms which are currently used at various stages of crime investigation – starting with the First Information Report (FIR).

Shri Kishore Jha during his almost three decade long career had an extensive exposure to the field of intelligence. Beginning with the role of intelligence in crime control and law and order, the importance of intelligence for natural security cannot be over emphasized.

Shri Kishore Jha has been emphasizing how an IPS officer needs to inculcate the art of gathering, processing and disseminating intelligence .The entire process needs to be made an integral part of policing. Shri Kishore Jha, an IPS officer, who has also been associated with intelligence issues at the national level, is convinced that we are still adopting a ‘compartmental approach’. There is a need to adopt an ‘integral approach’ to intelligence, which will ensure that it becomes an inherent part of day to day policing.

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