ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the various models of policing with special reference to India. The relation between the police and the polity is an important factor in deciding the nature of policing, a government's credential as a democratic political dispensation hinges crucially on the manner in which policing is carried out. Research into Indian policing is sparse and virtually non-existent, as opposed to research into other aspects of governance and law and order. The colonial police structure allows the government to maximise control of the population by separating the police from the community and by having strangers policing strangers. The committee was entirely made up of government bureaucrats and police officers and had a large remit. Appointed on 15 November 1977, in the immediate wake of disruption of parliamentary democracy in India, the National Police Commission (NPC) was an expression of the desire to investigate the role of the police in the suspension of democracy.
