When my friends and neighbors are having fun enjoying festivals, me and my family would be waiting for my dad to come home. We would be praying that there shouldn't be any troubles in his jurisdiction so that he can spend at least a couple of hours celebrating the occasion with us.
I still remember the day in which he came home with blood
strained clothes and multiple stitches on his hand. People who would happily
take a week long sick leave won’t understand the pain of my dad who went to
work the very next day else the already thinly spread and widely stretched colleagues would find it impossible to contain the situation.
Police officials face every form of stress you would have
read in a whole book on work related stress. They are not treated politely by
anyone who they come in contact with be it their superiors, politicians, other government
officials or the general public.
In cases of riots half a dozen police personal are sent to
contain an angry mob of over a 100. What’s worse is that the mob would pelt
stones, glass bottles and in some cases petrol bombs. The police is only
equipped with lathis and sometimes they would fortunate enough to use their age
old British era guns. Despite the limited equipment they are also limited by
the usage or the amount of damage they could inflict.
One arrest of or a charge sheet on a powerful politician’s
relative’s son’s friend could land the officials involved in a lot of trouble.
You might be thinking that the general public is fearful of the law enforcement
officials but in reality they are more afraid of executing their normal duties
properly.
One police constable patrols a kilometer square of
residential area armed only with his whistle and lathi. If a robbery happens in
that locality the constable will be suspended for a month or more.
When there is a murder or suicide the police officials
involved are expected to pay for the formalities out of their pockets. When
there is broken equipment they are again supposed to mend it or pay for it all
by themselves. Their travel and other clearly documentable expenses are reimbursed
to the bare minimum.
For all this they are paid a pittance and are one of the
lowly paid state government employees. Their health care insurances are not
honored by any hospital for the payments against them from the respective
government bodies would never arrive.
Police officials in our country have to live with nil
self-respect and have to kill their conscience over and over again. Beyond this
if they happen to once in a while behave like humans and succumb to their
emotions please understand that they can’t completely become emotionless
machines.
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