| Friends,
You might be remembering an Article I had sent you titled- "Constable Sri Brijendra Yadav is a man possessed". There I had presented the story of Mr Brijendra Yadav, a constable in the Uttar Pradesh police. At that time, he was posted in Ghazipur. Till that time, as per his version, he has once been terminated from the service, has been suspended four times, has got transferred umpteen numbers of times and has also been charged under serious offences.
Sri Yadav has been pursuing the cause of forming an Association or appropriate forum for the Non-gazetted police officers of Uttar Pradesh. He has also been pursuing the case of alleged misappropriation of funds by senior officers of the Police Department over a long period. He claims that through an organization registered in 1961 and not renewed since then, as per the Societies Registration Act, having only IPS officers and their wives as its committee members, an amount of Rs. 25 per month per police person is being deducted from every police up to the rank of Inspector making it Rupees 10.5 crore per year. He also talks of another scheme where Rs. 340 per person per year gets deducted. As I had told you earlier, he has filed a Writ Petition in the Allahabad High Court about this alleged misappropriation.
Now, Sri Yadav has been suspended once again. The order says that he has not being interested in government work, has being engaged in unnecessary work and has interacted with media without permission. The order says that these misconducts of Sri Yadav have diminished the police image in the eyes of the people.
This being an order of a senior officer, I can make no comments upon it. But during the last few days I did interact with a large number of police personnel in the lower ranks, who seemed to be having entirely different views about Sri Yadav. Many of them were even regarding him as their saviour, who was sacrificing his own comforts for their sake. Look at what one of the Constables told me-"Sir, you people still think you are living in a monarchical system, where there are different rules for different people." They were all praise for Sri Yadav.
On my previous mail, one of my IPS friends had commented- "Your XXXL size post belie your engineering background. Algebraically, it is: at+by-c=0 (where, at - amitabh thakur, by - brijender yadav, c - content). Supposedly, it meant that whatever I had written there, praising Sri Yadav and emphasizing upon a need for such associations, were content wise a big zero.
But somehow, it seems to me that times are changing very fast and we, as IPS officers and leaders of the force, will have to realize this as soon as possible. The basic principles of Human Resource Management, as taught and applied in other sections of society, will need to be implemented in almost equal measures in the Police force as well. Ignoring the signals has always proved to be dangerous (not talking at an individual level, but for a group).
Amitabh Thakur,
IPS,
Currently ay IIM Lucknow
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