How to control crimes

Criminal elements which cover over several states, pose a big problem which has not been faced before. National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) was proposed to be made and it would come under IB (Intelligence Bureau). This did not go beyond proposal. The structure for such a big organization which had powers to search, seize, and arrest would need a new slot on the government’s huge bureaucracy. Already government has several organizational divisions which complicate the governance of the country. If such new organization was brought into being, where will it fit in? It would be answerable to whom? So far the police are kept under the government, and politicians have good control over police like the transfer and promotion of police officials. Police are not independent of the government and cannot carry on investigations by themselves. Big organizational issues would have to be deeply thought about before making such a super organization. With the might that technology has given, mobiles, internet, investigating methods, the police can become more powerful and cannot be controlled or monitored. They may even become independent and threaten others. Even politicians would come under its vigilance and scrutiny. If such dominating policing organization comes about, we will become a police state. And that would be anti-democracy. At a meeting held consisting of Chief Ministers of different states, all expressed that such organization cannot be made. There is a need to equip the police with latest technology and streamline investigating procedures. But making a new super organization may not be wise. We must realize the impracticality of such super policing.