The sensational case of suspended Mumbai police officer Sachin Vaze has thrown into sharp relief the politician-police nexus that has always been discussed but rarely exposed.
Scandals have put the spotlight on police independence. Is it time to loosen political control over police or would this impact its oversight?
For: Julio Ribeiro
When police and politicians scratch each other’s backs, citizens suffer
No country that professes to be a liberal democracy tolerates political interference in the internal management of its police machinery. The Constitution and the law are the beacons that guide. Police officials at all levels have sworn to uphold the Constitution and the laws of the land. If they falter in that duty, they are culpable and should be benched. Period.
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On January 31, I received a knock at the door of my Beijing apartment. It was the manager of lease renewals clutching a stack of flyers.
“Mr. Zhang, you’re feeling well?” she asked, using my Chinese surname.
“No fever yet.”
She laughed foreigners and their comments.
“I know you don’t have the illness, but we want everyone to be safe. Here.” She handed me two copies of the flyer, one in Chinese and the other in English.
They were written by the Beijing municipal government and offered practical tips on how to protect oneself from the coronavirus. It had been eight days since the city of Wuhan had gone into full lockdown and seven since Beijing and other cities across China had declared a public health emergency. The flyers advised which government websites and social media accounts had the latest, most authoritative information and how to take basic precautions (wear a face mask, stay at home if possible), and they listed more than one hundred
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