After the excitement of creation, one pauses to analyse the importance of the brain and count the blessings which keep an ardent desire burning, to provide the most useful service to humanity-to protect the people and enforce the law of the land.
I owe an intellectual debt to my friends Dr Renuka Bisht and Suman Tarafdar, who always encouraged me to go beyond conventional horizons. Their contribution has helped to convey its message very lucidly. Suman Tarafdar, my friend, has always been my guide-who keeps inspiring me to write and points out faults in my scripts. His valuable suggestions have helped shape my book. And for that, I will remain grateful to him forever.
I am highly indebted to many eminent psychologists, who not only advised and guided me to carry out research and write with authenticity, but also assisted me with their enormous experience in this field.
The book has received guidance and valuable suggestions from many senior police officers and colleagues, especially my friends in CRPF, and critical assessments from others. Because of the vastness and complexities as well as the subjectivity of this social research, it is quite possible that it may have many loose ends, but an effort has been made to come up with the truth as far as possible. Besides this, the objective is also to open the subject for discussion and deliberations to make the police and security force personnel stress-free, in order to achieve excellence in the maintenance of public order, containing crime and making it a people's police who are friendly and trustworthy.
My sincere thanks to my parents and love to my wife Shagun and son Aditya, who showed outstanding patience and always endured my absence even when I was needed the most; while I was either on duty like any other police officer or during writing of this book. My deepest gratitude to my friends and my team who were always my support. The book is indebted to many friends, cops and family members who will remain unsung but adorable heroes of my life.
AIfred Hitchcock was sent by his father to a police station with a note, when he was about four or five years old. The police officer read the note and locked him in a cell for five or ten minutes, saying, "This is what we do to naughty boys."
When little boys grow to a certain age, they are asked what they would like to be when they grow up. Alfred, like other students, was also asked the same question. Alfred Hitchcock was sure about one thing-he would never be a police officer.
An iconic director of suspense movies, who had a master touch in visualising and creating scenes, and capturing the tension and thrills of murders, was sure about only one thing from his childhood that he didn't want to become a police officer. The psychopathic killers, the mysterious murderers lodged in a house in the middle of the city in the hustle and bustle of life all these mysteries were solved by detectives. He admits he was frightened by authoritative figures like the police, priests and teachers. Was it the loss of freedom in the cell for five to ten minutes that made him so? He himself confesses that he was a coward and a timid man.
Hitchcock's visualisation and creativity shone in his darkly brilliant suspense movies. But how do other people vent their good or bad memories of police interactions?
This book is a story of policemen who are misunderstood, disliked and hated in spite of often having good intentions; like the police officer who locked Hitchcock in a cell after reading his father's note. Just a harmless small act of discipline-which got misunderstood and changed the personality of Alfred Hitchcock forever. It left a bad indelible impression forever. It is also a story of police officers who are bad and are tormentors. The police also contribute to their share of evils that exist in society.
This is a war story; uncomfortable, unconventional, and unimaginable. This is the story of policemen who diligently face the unknown stressors daily. And their family suffers in silence. You might ask what is new? Don't judge the story before you turn every leaf of the book and learn how the sentinels of the nation are facing adversities with utmost intelligence and undying compassion. The smartly-turned-out cop is torn within and his smiling face masks his tears which are only seen by his friends and families. Citizens should have compassion for a cop. A happy cop would be a huge asset for the country and we should work to make this possible.
Cops don't face only criminals. They also face hurdles from the prying and impatient media, red-tapism of bureaucracy, unscrupulous politicians hell-bent on using them and the judiciary, and the law officers who help less and obstruct more in the process of dispensation of justice. Nevertheless, by and large, the distrust of people and their taking pride in breaking rules and the cynicism of the intelligentsia in the process of following the 'rule of law' are factors which not only dishearten the police, but also stresses them. Nevertheless, such demands of the citizens are in the spirit of a democratic rule. And on top of these devious factors are a few policemen, who have not only scant regard for human rights but are also brutal, boorish and trigger-happy. The policemen who are ready to bend the laws to break the bones of people are the devils within, who create such a monstrous image of the whole police force, that they themselves are ashamed of it sometimes.
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