Demoralising security forces / personnel

Security personnel/ forces have generally to face rough weather, especially when fighting and controlling anti-national and/or extremists and criminal elements. These enemies of the country and society are mostly much more aggressive and motivated. Such persons do not fear much about their lives and also do not hesitate taking others’ lives and creating rowdiness and burning and destroying public and private properties. Such elements are almost always the first to attack and defenders are taken unaware, and as such, loss to the defenders can mostly be much more. All such antinationals / extremists and criminals are therefore needed to be handled with similar aggression and need be captured or killed so that loss on the side of the general public, the security personnel and properties is the minimum.
As a matter of strategy, the security personnel are required to be still more aggressive and move with the speed much faster than that of bad elements. May be that some times some innocent persons of the general public suffer due to error of judgment. However, wiser it would be to eliminate bad elements, by any means at the command of those who are entrusted with the job of security and maintenance of law and order. During the past, some time, mostly keeping in view the political gains by the political parties, cases are filed against the security personnel who had been at the fore front to face the onslaught from the criminals and in the process some criminal or criminals or anti-nationals have been eliminated which is supposed to be the job of security personnel. In most cases where lot of hue and cry is being made by the oppositions in public for the elimination of the criminals, do not keep in mind that the person or persons for whom so much sympathies are being shown were actually criminals and their elimination in any way always goes in the interest and safety of the society and the nation. For such acts of wiping out the crimes and the criminals many police officers or persons are suffering and facing legal battle and some are put in the jails also. In some cases, even their political masters who have been able to control crimes in their areas/states are being labeled as having worked with bad intentions, just to spoil their image in the public and thus trying to get some political mileage.
Then, there are so called human rights activists who create all types of humbug and even initiate legal action against security personnel for having done their duties to control law and order. They forget that these bad elements/criminals and antinationals are responsible for many killings and other problems in the society and deserved to be eliminated. As for killings by these elements, security personnel are generally their main target. Just to create ill will against the defenders of law, the criminal elements many a time put the children and women as their shields, and from behind them, they attack the security personnel and destroy private and public properties. Thus, as a strategy, they apply all tactics to defame and demoralize the security personnel. The actions of opposition in political class and so called human rights activists further add to the woes of those entrusted with the job of security and are demoralized further, and may out of fear of being targeted unnecessarily may make them to decide against going for action and only remain as mute spectators and let the public and the nation suffer.
The request to the political class and the human rights activists is that they do not treat the security personnel as the fodder for criminals and antinationals. They should rather help them in performing their duties with full dedication and zeal and also realize that general public and security personnel are also human beings and they too need sympathy. As such, steps need be taken to give them more powers and free hand in performing their duties with directions for zero tolerance against the criminals, also zero tolerance against the security personnel when ever they indulge in any unwanted inhuman behavior and bad treatment against the innocents in public.
The security personnel also need be provided with better working conditions and should in no case be deployed for personal security of any person who although might have acquired position in political life, but basically is of criminal tendencies, because whenever they are deployed with such individuals their self respect and esteem is put at the discount and they feel demoralized and insulted also as mostly they are treated as personal servants.
The purpose of the security personnel should normally be to be spread every where in the system and be watchful and in action whenever and wherever the need be.
A few more points as under need be taken care of while thinking and commenting upon the behavior of security personnel:-
1. Whether they are provided with reasonable inputs, arms and ammunitions to be able to face all eventualities.
2. Why should there be any need to worry about the safety of criminal gangs? Rather they should be permitted to fight against each other(amongst themselves) and get finished off. This way only, burden on security forces may be made lighter. Though, of course, care has to be taken that they do not harm the general public.
3. Justice delivery system as of now is quite slow, as a result of which many criminals remain in jails for long times and are able to make their own gangs there also and continue to commit crimes from there itself. So, if any criminal has to be given capital punishment, it should be executed at the earliest, otherwise Kandhar type of incidents may continue to happen.
4. As is the culture of fixing targets for the staff in many deptts. in the Govts. and mostly in the Private sector, so too, targets for security personals can be that antinationals /criminals/and extremists are eliminated, and in the process, casualties on the side of security personals are near to ZERO. At the same time no excesses are to be tolerated against the general public and innocents. For such excesses on the part of security personals, punishments to be prescribed should be vary severe.
5. A large number of families of Hindus have been thrown out of their places in Jammu & Kashmir but any voice from the political class and the Human Rights activists, who show lot of concern for the other class, could generally not be heard in favour of such victims. In fact, they should fight against all type of wrongs happening in the society, be it against Hindus or Muslims or any other section of the Indian community so that every one feels safe and is able to lead a peaceful life.
12th sept.2010

R.D.Agarwal,
A-86, Indira Nagar, Lucknow-226016
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