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A Remedy to Verma Committee on Rape Episode Delhi, Vikash Narain Rai, IPS (Retd.)
Seven steps to Police reforms
The web of corruption - Centre must take the bull by its horns by G.P. Joshi & Maja Daruwala, The Tribune, 16 January 2011.
Civilians best placed to check on police reforms and tame renegades in uniform by Tennille Duffy, Daily Nation, 16 November 2010.
Police Will Police The Police by Maja Daruwala, Outlook Magazine, August 2010.
Resistance to reform: Key to better policing by Maja Daruwala, The Tribune, 21 July 2010.
Prevention of torture: A weak Bill won’t do by Pushkar Raj, The Tribune, 11 July 2010.
Half-hearted move for police reforms by Maja Daruwala and Parantap Das, The Statesman, 07 July 2010.
Give teeth to oversight board by Tennille Duffy, Daily Nation, 21 June 2010.
Oversight body sorely needed by Tennille Duffy, Daily Nation, 03 June 2010.
Torture in Kenya by Tennille Duffy, The New People Newspaper Online, 24 May 2010.
Protection of Human Rights Defenders Involved in Criminal Investigations by Tennille Duffy, The Botswana Gazette, 09 May 2010.
Stop talking, just start delivering on reforms now by Maja Daruwala, Times of India, 03 January 2010.
A cop out by Maja Daruwala, DNA, 08 September 2009.
Threat to personal liberty by Pushkar Raj, The Tribune, 02 August 2009.
Kenya: Government commitment necessary for police reforms by Louise Edwards, Pambazuka News, 02 July 2009.
Where There's A Will...: Extrajudicial Executions And Police Reform In Kenya by Louise Edwards, Buganda Post, 26 June 2009.
Whither Pakistan? by Sanjay Patil, The News, 01 April 2009.
Undemocratic policing by Sanjay Patil, Maja Daruwala & Asad Jamal, The News, 27 March 2009.
Democratic policing: Changes will make the police respect public liberty by Swati Mehta, The Tribune, 12 February 2009.
Diluting rape cases, Noida police style by Doel Mukherjee, The Tribune, 08 February 2009.
Police Reforms by Doel Mukerjee, The Hindu, 18 January 2009.
Khaki calibrations by G.P. Joshi, Indian Express, 02 January 2009.
Indian Police Reform Debate Gains Ground by Maja Daruwala, DW-World.De, 01 January 2009.
Not shortcuts, please by Maja Daruwala, Hindustan Times, 23 December 2008.
Why Every One Loves CBI ? by Pushkar Raj & Shobha Sharma, Hindustan, 30 November 2008.
No One Cares For Constabulary by Pushkar Raj & Shobha Sharma, Hindustan, 23 November 2008.
People's Police is a Dream without Political Will by Maja Daruwala, Dainik Bhaskar - Raipur, 19 November 2008.
Police Must Get Out of Political Stranglehold by Pushkar Raj & Shobha Sharma, Hindustan, 16 November 2008.
More police reform required in Rajasthan by Maja Daruwala & Navaz Kotwal, Nerve News, 09 November 2008.
Police must transform from force to service by Maja Daruwala, Hindustan, 09 November 2008.
When will police complaint authorities be established by Pushkar Raj & Shobha Sharma, Hindustan, 09 November 2008.
Police in Madhya Pradesh need drastic reform by Maja Daruwala & Navaz Kotwal, TwoCircles.Net, 02 November 2008.
Police in Madhya Pradesh need drastic reform by Maja Daruwala, The Indian News, 02 November 2008.
Where is the will to reform the police by Pushkar Raj & Shobha Sharma, Hindustan, 02 November 2008.
Politicians think the police force belongs to them by Maja Daruwala, The Deccan Herald, 20 October 2008.
Good governance will help combat terrorby Maja Daruwala, The Tribune, 20 October 2008.
Ineffective policing - 'Special laws' will not stop blasts by Maja Daruwala, The Tribune, 09 October 2008.
It's Mayawati's chance to reform police by Maja Daruwala and Navaz Kotwal, Times of India - Lucknow Edition, 03 August 2008.
What statistics wont tell - all that is wrong with India's police by Maja Daruwala and Navaz Kotwal, Garhwal Post, 10 July 2008.
The Killing of an Encounter Specialist by Pushkar Raj and Shobha Sharma, Kashmir Times, 19 June 2008.
Policing in Haryana - Internal complaint mechanisms don't exist by Pushkar Raj and Shobha Sharma, The Tribune, 18 June 2008.
There is more to Good Administration than Statistics by Shobha Sharma & Pushkar Raj,Dainik Bhaskar-New Delhi, 02 June 2008.
One Year of Mayawati in Office by Shobha Sharma & Pushkar Raj, Times of India - Lucknow, May 2008.
Police reforms in Karnataka: Time for implementation by Ebba Martesson, Deccan Herald, 20 May 2008.
How Many Encounter Specialist are There in Our Police? by Pushkar Raj & Shobha Sharma, Dainik Bhaskar - New Delhi, 02 April 2008.
Why this indifference towards police reforms by Pushkar Raj & Shobha Sharma, Dainik Bhaskar - New Delhi, 03 March 2008.
Too important to neglect, too urgent to delay by Pushkar Raj and Shobha Sharma, Kashmir Times, 28 February 2008.
Illusion of police reforms - Punjab, Haryana and HP laws augur little change by Pushkar Raj and Shobha Sharma, The Tribune, 01 January 2008.
Culture of encounters - Time to fix accountability on the police by Pushkar Raj & Shobha Sharma, The Tribune, 06 November 2007.
Crime in Uniform by Pushkar Raj & Shobha Sharma, Jansatta, 06 November 2007.
Controlling the Police- Models in the Commonwealth published by the International Police Executive Symposium in their Working Paper Series- October 2007.
The Ujjai Shocker by G.P. Joshi, Indian Express, 09 September 2006.
Policing the bribe by G.P. Joshi, Indian Express, 05 September 2007.
Cases missing from police files by G.P. Joshi, Indian Express, 11 August 2007.
Whose Police Is It? by Shobha Sharma, Indian Voter, August 2007.
A Law to Legalise the Illegal by G.P. Joshi, Indian Express, 30 May 2006.
Shuffling IAS, IPS officers like chess pawns by Swati Mehta, The Tribune, 30 April 2006.
Draconian law a threat to civil liberties by Dr. Doel Mukerjee, Voice of Ambition, 10 April 2006.
Draconian law a threat to civil liberties by Dr. Doel Mukerjee, The Tribune, 09 April 2006.
Duplicity is the name of the game! by Dr. Doel Mukerjee, Sahara Time, 01 April 2006.
Jessica Lall case: Need to reform the system by Mandeep Tiwana, The Tribune, 12 March 2006.
The Forgotten Police Agenda by Mandeep Tiwana, Civil Society, Feb-Mar 2006.
Bringing Democratic Policing to Rural India by Devika Prasad and Monika Saroha, Grassroots, February 2006.
A Democratic Police Act for India by Devika Prasad, Combat Law, February 2006.
Tasks before the Soli Sorabjee panel by Doel Mukerjee, The Tribune, 19 February 2006.
Talk more for a modern police by Dr. Doel Mukerjee, Civil Society, February 2006.
Shaping a Professional force by Mandeep Tiwana, Sahara Time, 04 February 2006.
Holding the Police to Account by Swati Mehta, Sahara Time, 04 February 2006.
Needed, appropriate political direction from govt by Devika Prasad, Sahara Time, 04 February 2006.
People's Policing by Monika Saroha, Sahara Time, 04 February 2006.
New Police Act must protect, not impede, freedom by Mandeep Tiwana, The Tribune, 11 December 2005.
A secure tenure for district officers needed by G.P. Joshi, The Hindu, 16 October 2005.
Cops Run Amok by Monika Saroha, Tehelka, 03 September 2005.
An Open Letter to the Prime Minister by G.P. Joshi, Indian Express, 31 Aug 2005.
Train cops on crowd control by Monika Saroha and Aditi Datta, The Tribune, 14 Aug 2005.
CrPC Bill: Centre's decision a setback for reforms by Monika Saroha and Aditi Datta, The Tribune, 25 July 2005.
Crowd control or police out-of-control? by G.P. Joshi, Indian Express, 22 July 2005.
A Secure Minimum Tenure for District Chiefsby G.P. Joshi, Unpublished, 22 July 2005.
A Critique of the National Commission for Human Rights Bill 2005 by Mandeep Tiwana, Quarterly Newsletter of the Centre for Democratic Development, Islamabad, Pakistan, June 2005.
Reforming Police by Maja Daruwala and Doel Mukerjee, The Hindu, 26 June 2005.
Allow no shortcuts in the law by GP Joshi, September 4, 2004.
Encouraging law enforcers to be lawbreakers by Swati Mehta, August 31, 2004.
'For the first time, I was in the presence of real terror' by Dr. Doel Mukerjee, August 11, 2004.
Justifying third degree by Dr. Doel Mukerjee, August 10, 2004.
Torture of Iraqi Prisoners - G.P. Joshi - May 2004
The world's most powerful army by GP Joshi, May 11, 2004.
Transfer of Mumbai Police Chief - G.P. Joshi - February 2004
Moral of the Story: Reform or Perish - G.P.Joshi - Indian Express, 07.12.2003
What R.K. Sharma tells us - G.P. Joshi - Indian Express, 25.09.2002
Can a law be more fake than this? - G.P. Joshi - Indian Express, 21.08.2002
The murder of Stephen Lawrence - The Gujarat police can learn some lessons from this British case - G.P. Joshi - Indian Express, 03.06.2002
In search of lost credibility - The carnage in Gujarat underlines the need for police reform- G.P. Joshi - Indian Express, 05.04.2002
Threats to Democracy - Need for Rights-Based Approach to Crime and Poverty - G.P. Joshi - Statesman, 22.03.2002
Police reforms - Union government should take the lead - G. P. Joshi - The Statesman, 17.01.2001
The CVC Bill Undermining the Spirit of Law - G.P. Joshi - Times of India, 26.12.2000
A Requiem for the NPC?- G.P. Joshi- Seminar- 483 - November 1999
Will apex court's scheme ensure CBI autonomy? - G.P. Joshi- Times of India, 18.03.1998
Sectarian virus in the police force - G. P. Joshi - Hindustan Times, 12.11.1996
The Central Govt & Crime Control - G.P. Joshi - The Hindustan Times, 12.04.1996
Police & Politics Call For Freedom From Interference - G.P. Joshi - Statesman, 28.10.1995
The Declining Standards In Public Life- G.P. Joshi - Indian Express, 14.10.1995
Policing since Independence - G.P. Joshi - Pioneer, 01.10.1995
Motivating the efficient Performance appraisal in government - G.P. Joshi - Times of India, 19.01.1983
Police limitations in curbing crime - G. P. Joshi - Indian Express, 03.08.1981
Police Brutality in Perspective- G. P. Joshi - The Times of India, 27.02.1981
The Central Bureau of Investigation and its Credibility - G.P.Joshi (Unpublished)
The Police and the Rule of Politics - G.P.Joshi (Unpublished)
October 21- the Police Memorial Day - By G.P.Joshi (Unpublished)
Police Brutality in South Africa - G.P.Joshi (Unpublished)
Militarisation of the Indian Police - G.P.Joshi (Unpublished)
Crime and its Fear - G.P.Joshi (Unpublished)
National Human Rights Commission-Need for Review- G..P.Joshi (Unpublished)
Recent Developments in Kerala Police - G.P.Joshi (Unpublished)

Workshop Reports

Launch of CHRI - Catalyst Trust Book on Police Reform in Tamil Nadu (Chennai, India, November 2008)
Civil Society Workshop in Dehradun (Dehradun, India, November 2008)
Uttar Pradesh Civil Society (CSO) Meeting/Workshop ( Uttar Pradesh, India, October 2008)
HURINET-Uganda Police training workshop for civil society organisations (Entebbe, Uganda, August 2007)
Police accountability and effectiveness in Eastern Africa (Nairobi, Kenya, June 2007)
A people's campaign for better policing - India national workshop (Delhi, India, April 2007)
Police reform: An exchange of experiences from South Asia (Delhi, India, March 2007)
People's Participation in Police Reform: A Consultation for the North East of India (Guwahati, India, February 2007)
Police accountability in East Africa (Arusha, Tanzania, June 2006)
Roundtable on policing and public order in India (Delhi, India, June 2006)
Police oversight in Commonwealth Africa (Accra, Ghana, October 2005)
Media on police reform (Delhi, India, March 2005)
Report of the Roundtable Conference on "Police that we want" (2005), New Delhi - Swati Mehta.
Workshop report on Media on Police Reforms (2005), New Delhi - Vaishali Mishra
Workshop report on "Police - Public Interface: Making It Happen" (2004), Mumbai - Dr. Doel Mukerjee
A Report on "Policing - A Human Rights Perspective" (2004), New Delhi - Dr. Doel Mukerjee
Report of the Roundtable Conference on Police Reform (2003), Chennai - Mandeep Tiwana
Report of the Roundtable Conference on Police Reform (2003), Trivandrum - Devika Prasad
Report of the Roundtable Conference on Police Reform (2003), Joshua Auerbach, Sumit Baud
Report of the Roundtable Conference on Police Reform (2002), New Delhi - Aravinda Kosaraju
Report on the Madhya Pradesh Police Vidheyak, 2001 (2002) - K.V. Anuradha

Publications

Police Pamphlets on Arrest, FIR , SC/ST, Legal Aid, Interogation (2011) Researched & written by Fahad Ahmed, Diya Nag & Navaz Kotwal, CHRI.
State Security Commissions: Reform Derailed (2011), Researched & written by Garima Mohan and Navaz Kotwal, CHRI.
Feudal Forces: Reform Delayed (2010), Researched & written by Devyani Srivastava, Sumant Balakrishnan & Navaz Kotwal, CHRI.
The Central Vigilance Commission and the Central Bureau of Investigation: A brief history of some developments (2010), written by G.P. Joshi, CHRI.
Police Organisations in Pakistan (2010), Researched & Written by Asad Jamal and Edited by Sanjay Patil, CHRI/HRCP.
Common Standards for policing in East Africa (2010), Researched & Written by Louise Edwards, Sean Tait & Derek Dohler and Edited by Louise Edwards & Tennille Duffy, CHRI.
Uttarakhand State Police Complaints Authority (2010), Written by Navaz Kotwal & Sharan Srinivas and edited by Devika Prasad, CHRI.
Goa State Police Complaints Authority (2010), Written by Navaz Kotwal & Sharan Srinivas and edited by Devika Prasad, CHRI.
101 things you wanted to know about the police but were too afraid to ask [English | Hindi | Kannada | Gujarati | Bangla - Bangladesh | Dhivehi - Maldives] (2009), written by Maja Daruwala and Navaz Kotwal, CHRI.
Complaints Authorities: Police Accountability in Action (2009), Written by Devika Prasad & Navaz Kotwal and edited by Navaz Kotwal, CHRI.
- Your guide to using Police Complaints Authority [ English, Tripura, Assamese ] (2009), Written by Sharan Srinivas & Afreen Siddiqui and edited by Navaz Kotwal, CHRI.
Chhattisgarh pages from a diary (2008), Written by Sumit Kumar and edited by Maja Daruwala, Shobha Sharma & Sanjay Patil, CHRI.
Police Organisation in India [Reprint in English & Hindi] (2008), CHRI.
Feudal Forces: Democratic Nations - Police Accountability in Commonwealth South Asia (2007), Researched & Authored by Swati Mehta and Edited by Daniel Woods, CHRI.
The Police, The People, The Politics: Police Accountability in Ghana (2007), CHRI.
Police reform debates in India - Selected recommendations from the National Police Commission, Ribeiro Committee, Padmanabhaiah Committee and the Supreme Court directives in Prakash Singh v/s Union of India [English & Hindi] (2007 & 2008), Compiled by Swati Mehta and Edited by Daniel Woods, CHRI.
Maintenance of Public Order and Police Preparedness (2006), Written by Navaz Kotwal and edited by Maja Daruwala, CHRI.
Strengthening democratic policing in the Commonwealth Pacific (2006), Written by Devika Prasad and edited by Clare Doube & Daniel Woods, CHRI.
Police Malpractices [ English, Hindi & Gujarati ] (2006), Written by Navaz Kotwal and edited by Maja Daruwala, CHRI.
Fundamental Rights [ English & Hindi ] (2006), Written by Abha Joshi, MARG and concept by Doel Mukerjee, CHRI & Ministry of Home Affairs.
First Information Report (F.I.R) (2006), written by Dr. Doel Mukerjee and concept by Maja Daruwala, CHRI & Ministry of Home Affairs.
Police Interrogation (2006), written by Dr. Doel Mukerjee and concept by Maja Daruwala, CHRI & Ministry of Home Affairs.
Arrest & Detention (2006), written by Dr. Doel Mukerjee and concept by Maja Daruwala, CHRI & Ministry of Home Affairs.
Receiving Bail (2006), written by Dr. Doel Mukerjee and concept by Maja Daruwala, CHRI & Ministry of Home Affairs.
Legal Aid & Advice (2006), written by Dr. Doel Mukerjee and concept by Maja Daruwala, CHRI & Ministry of Home Affairs.
The Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities), Act 1989 (2006), written by Dr. Doel Mukerjee and concept by Maja Daruwala, CHRI & Ministry of Home Affairs.
The Police, The People, The Politics: Police Accountability in Tanzania (2006), CHRI & Ford Foundation, Kenya.
The Police, The People, The Politics: Police Accountability in Uganda (2006), CHRI & Ford Foundation, Kenya.
The Police, The People, The Politics: Police Accountability in Kenya (2006), CHRI & Kenya Human Rights Commission.
A Review of the Uganda Police Force Budget and its effect on Crime Management (2006), CHRI.
Killing Justice: Vigilantism In Nagpur (2005), Swati Mehta, Edited by Maja Daruwala, CHRI.
Human Rights and Policing: Landmark Supreme Court Directives & National Human Rights Commission Guidelines (2005), Mandeep Tiwana, Edited by Maja Daruwala, CHRI.
Police Accountability : Too Important to Neglect, Too Urgent to Delay (2005), CHRI.
A Review of the Kenya Police Force Budget and its Effect on Crime Management (2005), CHRI.
Police Reforms and You (2003) - Dr. Doel Mukerjee
Report of the Roundtable Conference on Police Reform (2003), Nairobi.
Police Organisation in India (2002) - Some basic information
The Police Act of 1861, Model Police Bill of the National Police Commission, the Madhya Pradesh Police Vidheyak, 2001 and the Police Acts of three Commonwealth Countries- A Comparative profile (2001), G.P. Joshi, CHRI.
FIR and You (2001) - Pamphlet
Arrest and Detention - Your Rights - Pamphlet
Police Interrogation - Yours Rights - Pamphlet
Your Right to Legal Aid - Pamphlet
Scheduled Cast and Scheduled Tribes - Pamphlet

CHRI Research papers

Policing in India: a Crisis of Confidence and Credibility -The Right to Information and its Implications for the Police (2006) - Tharron McIvor
Independent Institutional Evaluation of Police Performance (2005) - Mandeep Tiwana
Police Complaints Agencies in the Commonwealth (2005) - Swati Mehta
Control & Governance of the Police: Commonwealth Innovations in Policy and Practice (2005) - Devika Prasad
Summary Critique of the Kerala Police Performance and Accountability Commission Report (2005) - Mandeep Tiwana
Police Reforms - Wait & Watch! (2005) - Dr. Doel Mukerjee & Aditi Datta
Media and the Police: Legal Interaction (2005) - Tharron McIvor (*This paper was presented at the police media workshop held in Raipur, Chhattisgarh on 29 August 2005)
Guidelines for Police Officers on Making Arrests (2005) - Aravinda Kosaraju
Standards and Procedure for Crowd Control (2005) - Mandeep Tiwana & Monika Saroha
Police Act, 1861: Why we need to replace it? (2005) - Maja Daruwala, G.P. Joshi & Mandeep Tiwana
Police Accountability in India - G.P. Joshi
Police Reform Initiatives in India (2003) - Dr. Doel Mukerjee
Police Practices: Obstructions To Poor People's Access to Justice (2003) - G.P. Joshi
The Government, the Police and the Community (2002) - A Comparative Analysis of Police Acts - G.P. Joshi
The Padmanabhaiah Committee on Police Reforms - A Critical Analysis of Some Important Recommendations (2001), G.P. Joshi
Some Important Recommendations of the (by G.P. Joshi):
(i) National Police Commission
(ii) Ribeiro Committee on Police Reforms and
(iii) Padmanabhaiah Committee on Police Reforms (2001) ,CHRI
The Story of the Central Vigilance Commission Bill, 1999 (2000), G.P. Joshi
Police Brutality in India: A Media Scan (2000), G.P. Joshi
Police Public Interface: A Research study (2000), G.P. Joshi
CHRI Submission to the Ribeiro Committee on Police Reforms (1999), GP Joshi
Ribeiro Committee Report on Police Reforms - A Critical Analysis (1999), G.P. Joshi

Other Resource Material

Police Accountability in the United Kingdom
Monitoring Police Custody as a Device for Accountability by Elrena Van Der Spuy, University of Cape Town, Institute of Criminology.
The Role of Ombuds Agencies in Police Accountability in the Commonwealth by Maria Canineu, CHRI.
Human Rights Commissions and Oversight of Police by Swati Mehta, CHRI.
Police Oversight by the Courts by Swati Mehta, CHRI.
Holding Police to Account for Misconduct: Police-Specific Complaints Agencies by Swati Mehta, CHRI.

Presentations

Why police accountability?, presentation given by Daniel Woods at a workshop on police accountability at the 2007 CIVICUS World Assembly in Glasgow, Scotland.

The role of civil society in police reform in Uganda, presentation given by Daniel Woods at an Idasa conference on policing in post-conflict Africa, in Pretoria, March 2006.

Monitoring Police Performance - International Perspectives Presented by Mandeep Tiwana at CHRI's National Roundtable on Police Reforms in New Delhi, India, December 2005. Access the powerpoint presentation here.

Independent Institutional Evaluation of Police Performance - Comparative Paper presented by Mandeep Tiwana at CHRI's National Roundtable on Police Reforms in New Delhi, India, December 2005.

Control and Governance of the Police presented by Devika Prasad at CHRI's National Roundtable on Police Reforms in New Delhi, India, December 2005. Access the powerpoint presentation here, and the paper here.

Complaints Agencies in the Commonwealth presented by Swati Mehta at CHRI's National Roundtable on Police Reforms in New Delhi, India, December 2005. Access the powerpoint presentation here, and the paper here.

Links

International

Compendium of Good Practices on Security Sector Reform

Home Office, UK

International Victimology Website

Police Assessment Resource Centre

South Asia Partnership Canada

South Asia Forum for Human Rights

Vera Institute of Justice

India

Indian Bureau of Police Research and Development

Ministry of Home Affairs - Government of India