Good Cop, Bad Cop: 'A Clean and Efficient Police Force is Our Birthright'

“I’m a lawyer, so they could not get their way with me. "Less than half of the police personnel feel that SCs and STs within the police are given completely equal treatment when compared to other caste groups." Devyani Srivastava, a senior programme officer in the police reforms programme of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, says that during her work in Madhya Pradesh's 'Ajak Thanas' — special police stations meant to address grievances of SC/ST people — a deep-rooted prejudice could be witnessed at work. An Overburdened Force, Police Rights & Political Pressure When asked about the issue of police brutality, Vikram Singh, an educationist and former IPS officer who served as DGP in Uttar Pradesh Police, talks about a "deeper malice in terms of the training of police personnel" which he believes is the cause behind what is currently happening. He adds that some states had already started giving police personnel mandatory offs "because that is a biological and mental necessity".