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14 years on, no state/UT has fully implemented SC-mandated police reforms

Most states have also failed to comply with directives that mandate minimum tenure for police officers

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India, which has the world’s second highest population, has 151 police personnel per 100,000 population

Shreya Raman and Shreehari Paliath | IndiaSpend Mumbai | Bengaluru
No Indian state is fully compliant with 14-year-old Supreme Court directives for police reforms, an analysis by the international non-profit Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) has found. Of the 28 states, only two--Andhra Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh--were partially compliant with the five binding directives included in the analysis. All the other states have failed to comply, as per CHRI’s report.
The set of seven directives, aimed at kick-starting reforms, was introduced based on a public interest litigation (PIL) filed in 1996. Despite various National Police Commission recommendations made since 1979,

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