Police Atrocities And Accountability
- IJLLR Journal
- Mar 2, 2022
- 1 min read
Kanchan Jodha, Manipal University
INTRODUCTION
The general aim of the Police is to nurture a civilised society and to maintain law and order, ensuring the safe and harmonious functioning of people’s everyday life. In every democratic society it’s the police who maintain a peaceful balance. Standards of conduct are meant to be sky high to ensure proper policing.
Police are said to be the protector of the rights of citizens, yet are often charegd with misconduct with and restricting the rights of violators of law in the furtherance of society’s good. William Wordsworth in his poem very aptly puts it that a constable is the peace officer of his day – “a staid guardian of the public peace”1. In a competent justice system, laws do not have to be imposed in a crude form, but in a manner acceptable by the people who are patrons of the police service in a democracy.
