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communalism in
in the society
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The police should be held fully responsible for the control of communal riots. If a concerned officer fails to check violence within 24 hours, he or she should be transferred or suspended.
Police should be given specialised training to handle communal riots. In some of the recent riots, more people were killed in police firing than in rioting.
Non-lethal rubber bullets and water canons should be made available to the police.
In order to spare innocent lives, policemen with guns must be trained as marksmen. Preventive arrests should be made mandatory.
The intelligence machinery must be toned up, and competent and secular officers should be trained in intelligence gathering.
Absence of codified guidelines paralyses the administration. Among all states, the West Bengal government has succeeded in damping major communal disgruntlement (except after the Babri Masjid demolition, which was soon controlled).
There should be refresher training for the entire police force. The Centre for Study of Society and Secularism, Mumbai, has conducted more than 50 workshops for the Mumbai police and for the police officials in Thane, Nashik, Aurangabad, Bangalore, Mysore, etc. Such workshops are particularly necessary for the field constabulary and lower-level officials. Unfortunately, these re-orientation courses are seldom organised.
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