ABSTRACT
Large-scale organizational transformation in the Indian Police Service (IPS) is extremely difficult for police leadership, since their authority is limited and has been diluted over the years. Although IPS officers control police operations and investigation of crimes, significant financial powers and policy making have been hijacked by the Home Department. The seeds of this system of arrangement lie with the establishment of the Indian Civil Service (ICS), whose members served in the Home Department and controlled the police organization. The origins of the ICS itself may be traced back to Robert Clive’s victory in the battle of Plassey, which made the British independent administrators of vast territories. Rather than depending upon the Mughal machinery, whose loyalty was in question, the British evolved their own administrative structure to rule India. The ICS was born and soon established itself as the steel frame of the British Raj. ICS officers commanded the police organization that was based upon the Daroga system continuing from the Mughal period.
