Increased mobile policing can only help in attending emergency calls, she added. Bedi, a stern advocate of beat policing, said the government has to invest more in effective grass-roots policing. It means police officers in-charge of specified area should form liaison groups with community, schools, and neighbourhood watch groups and panchayats for community policing,” she said. Which is why effective beat police system has to be put in place. “The community too have either become indifferent or give up out of fear of being retaliated. The police system has also failed to track such persons and drop-outs to identify them early so that they do not turn into ruffians in the locality, the Lt. Parents should not hesitate to enquire about the whereabouts of their children, she added.Īn unattended child can become a potential perpetrator, she said adding that the family and school have to shoulder the responsibility of refining the delinquent before he indulges in any misadventure. Parents and teachers have either given up on them or let them go off early, Ms. I have conversed with several accused during my responsibility as a serving police officer, later as in-charge of prison administration, along side running family counselling centres from my NGOs, my learnt answer is that the delinquents are a product of family neglect and bad habits.” ‘Potential perpetrator’
In an open letter, India’s first woman IPS officer said “the root of the problem is absence of better parenting and school education. Stressing the need to address the root cause of sexual assaults on women in the country, Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi on Monday said better parenting, education, and strengthening the beat system of policing with an eye to identifying perpetrators would stop heinous crimes against women.