Comparative Study of Police Administration in Indian States

Comparative study of police Models – Policing is one of the most important of the functions undertaking by the every sovereign government For the state machinery, police is an inevitable organ which would ensure maintenance of law and order, and also the first link in the criminal justice system. Traditional policing is probably the best known style of law enforcement in the U.S. and its still the standard. The other law enforcement style is known as community policing these are fundamentals constructs that dictates the nature of policing and contextual constructs that influence policing strategies and operations. “Comparative Policing” implies similarities and contrasts. Wilson identified three styles of policing. 1. Watchman Style 2.Legislative Style and 3. Service Style. The watchman style distinguishes between two mandates of policing order maintenance and law enforcement. In this context the paper explores the comparative study of police models and institutional inadequacies in Indian police system. This paper tries to examine the varies police systems that exists in India examples of varies types of policing models This paper takes cue from these systems, their positives and negatives, and tries to find out how the Indian System can be understood in the light of these policing models. “Unlike the armed services, the police is a civilian force; unlike the civil services, it is a disciplined service. The police service has thus a flavour all its own and comparison with other services can be misleading”. Royal Commission the police, 1962