Civil society interventions to improve policing | 8th February
EXPERIENCE shows that the police organisations of South Asia including Bangladesh have been more focused on using aggressive tactics to ensure law and order. This attitude and resultant tactics, though unfortunate, have stemmed from the colonial and feudal mindset and has placed a premium on control and suppression. It is thus no wonder that the South Asian countries, professedly democracies, do not have policing that reflects liberal democratic ideals.
Concerned citizens are of the view that instead of having the desirable law enforcement for safeguarding individual rights, the South Asian countries have willy-nilly fostered the growth of unaccountable and unprofessional police organization. Such citizens hold the view that since the politicians in these countries have not demonstrated adequate will to improve law enforcement, it is incumbent on civil society to play a more active role to achieve better policing.
The question therefore, is, can civil society organisations improve police professionalism? To come to specifics if the civil society...
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