04.01.2007 - Source: BBC News

6 policemen sacked for alleged failings over murders of 17 young women and children ("Police sacked over India killings") [ID 18764]

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02.01.2007 - Source: Guardian

Riots over police inaction after 2 men appeared in court accused of killing at least 15 women and children ("Riots over police inaction on Indian serial murders") [ID 18759]

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10.2004 - Source: UK Home Office

Police & intelligence agencies ("Country Report - October 2004") [#28325],  [ID 7747]

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5.44 Information sourced from the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) website on 19 August 2004 indicates that the Police are a civil authority controlled by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs and subordinate to the Executive, represented in the Union Government by the Prime Minister and in the States by the Chief Minister, and their respective Councils of Ministers. The 25 state governments have primary responsibility for maintaining law and order. Each State has its own force headed by a Director-General of Police (DGP) and a number of Additional Directors-General or Inspectors-General of Police (IGP) who look after various portfolios. [58]

5.45 As noted in the FAS website, India’s intelligence agencies include the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the premier investigation agency of India responsible for a wide variety of criminal and national security matters; the Intelligence Bureau (IB), India’s domestic intelligence agency, which is particularly tasked with intelligence collection in border areas; and the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India’s external intelligence agency, particularly active in Pakistan. [58]
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10.2004 - Source: UK Home Office

Women in police stations ("Country Report - October 2004") [#28325],  [ID 7748]

"[...]6.314 As reported by Amnesty in a report on women in Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan, many states have set up Mahila thanas (women’s police stations) to encourage women to register their complaints with the police. However, the majority of these are in large cities, thus denying access to the most marginalised women in rural areas and there are few of them even in large cities. Rajasthan had 9 and was planning to establish a further 3 as at December 2000.[3e]
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6.317 A report issued by the Government of Tamil Nadu in 2003 on Human Development in Tamil Nadu notes that institutional structures including all-women police stations, free legal aid boards, family counselling centres and the State Commission for Women have been established. In addition several NGOs are working to prevent atrocities against women. The report further states, “Recognising that the attitude of the police is one of the barriers to institutional redress, the State Commission for Women has initiated gender sensitization of Tamil Nadu Police functionaries and legal literacy programmes for teachers with the support of NGOs."[18](p111) [...]"

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31.08.2004 - Source: BBC News

Gujarat: members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prevented Indian police from carrying out their duties during religious riots in 2002 ("Policeman accuses Gujarat BJP") [#25255],  [ID 7749]

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30.06.2004 - Source: BBC News

Daily, an average of 100 Togolese is still fleeing to Benin in fear of abductions and targeting by security forces; thousands of people left Togo during post-election violence at end of April ("Indian police murdered colleague") [#23725],  [ID 7750]

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08.2002 - Source: European Reintegration Networking

Background information on India (including procedures for entrance, supply and care, health, education, work opportunies,...) ("Background information on India (including procedures for entrance, supply and care, health, education, work opportunies,...)") [#28646],  [ID 7751]

"[...]Nach der Verfassung obliegt den Einzelstaaten und Unionsterritorien die Verantwortung für die Erhaltung der öffentlichen Ordnung. So werden alle Routine-Polizeiaufgaben, inklusive der Verfolgung von Kriminellen, von den Polizeieinheiten der Staaten erledigt. Höhere Offiziere kommen jedoch vom Indian Police Service, der landesweiten Ausbildungseinrichtung der Polizei. In den meisten Unionsstaaten ist die Polizei in zivile unbewaffnete Polizei und in bewaffnete Gruppen geteilt. Die unbewaffnete Polizei, in der Regel lediglich mit einem Schlagstock ausgerüstet, führen Untersuchung durch, nehmen Strafanzeigen auf, regeln den Verkehr und patrouillieren die Straßen. Die bewaffneten Polizeikräfte kommen nur in bestimmten Situationen zum Einsatz wie beispielsweise bei der Bekämpfung organisierter Kriminalität, bei studentischen oder religiöser Unruhen sowie beim Personenschutz. [...]"

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