KERALA POLICE BILL

    Kerala Assembly, on Monday 3rd January,2011,passed the Kerala Police Bill, a land mark legislation seeking to modernize the police force by reforming its structure,powers, duties and responsibilities. The legislation through its final stages. The government had filled 10,008 vacancies in the force through the public service Commission and 2,688 posts would be created. The government had sanctioned 11 new police stations, while 10 more coastal police stations would be set up this year.
     the government had not changed the transfer policy of police men. The eight-hour duty norm could not be implemented at one go, but the government would implement this in 51 more stations this year,bringing the total to 102. With regard to community police, 50 more stations would soon have this system, bring the total to 142.
   The government would go ahead with the integration of armed and local police, and changes in the training module had already been made. Centralized lock ups would be started in Thiruvananthapuram,Kochi and Kozhikodu, where crime investigation would be separated from law and order

Prof. John Kurakar