Police Reforms: India
Police Reforms: Too Important to Neglect, Too Urgent to Delay

People's Participation in Police Reform:
A Consultation for the North East
Guwahati - February 21-22, 2007

CHRI staff traveled to Assam on 21-22 February 2007 to run a consultation for civil society, media representatives and academics in the North East. This consultation was conducted by CHRI in partnership with the Centre for Organisation, Research & Education (CORE) Manipur, the Centre for North East Studies & Policy Research and the North East Network. The consultation was attended by representatives from Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura.

The objectives of the consultation were to:

• Improve visibility of two current police reform initiatives, namely the Supreme Court Directives and the Model Police Act;
• Generate strategies to monitor compliance with the Supreme Court directives in the North East states; and
• Map the steps required to increase people’s participation in the police reform process.
  

Click here to see Consultation Agenda.

Click here to see Consultation Statement.