GS Paper 4
What an Ideal Police System should be like?
Ideal Police System is:
- Where citizens are able to file their complaints without having to go to a police station.
- Where citizens got due service from the police without needing to visit the police station.
- Utilizing technology as it allows the citizen to interact with the police force — and even to lodge a complaint — from the comfort of his or her home and computer or mobile phone.
Indian Police Service is an important service
- IPS was one of the pillars of the national administrative system.
- As members of an all-India service, they would serve in individual states but represent a national idea.
What is its mandate?
- Their mandate was to uphold a common concept of the rule of law and the democratic polity and in that sense; they were guardians of not just the public order and honest conduct but of the majesty of the law.
- To discharge their duties without fear or favour, and without time delay.
- They should be unafraid to give the political executive honest and unbiased advice.
- Their holy book and the constant guide must be the Constitution.
