Unfair and improper

Politicisation of the police or educational administration at the operative levels can be extremely harmful to the operational efficiency and effectiveness of the police force and the teaching community. What is even worse is an attempt to seek undue electoral advantages by placing partisan people and cronies in crucial areas of public and community services and dealings. It is unethical, undemocratic and deliberately engineered to deny equal level-playing field to all political parties. As much as recruitments must be based on criteria that are transparent, the post recruitment training must also be truly professional and free from any electoral or political considerations.

We all know that the police need to be reformed. We also strongly believe that if we had a properly trained and duly motivated police force there would have been no need for creating and fielding some parallel agencies as we see today giving to rise to serious controversies in the process from all quarters from within and outside the country.

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The need for a neutral and efficient police force now is more than ever before as the general election is fast approaching. Police is one of the most important instruments of the administration involved in dealing with the public at large and hence there is hardly any margin for errors with them. Its actions may lift or seriously dent the image of any country, something the government would do well to remember.