The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, has stressed on the need to revamp the functioning of police forces across the country, to strengthen the internal security mechanism.

“We cannot continue to police our society with archaic laws and policing systems. We are aware that many police commissions have made various recommendations on police reforms. I urge the States to seriously look into this aspect,” he said, while inaugurating Chief Minister's conference on internal security, here on Tuesday.

He asked the Centre and the States to work together to formulate guidelines for community policing. “While the Central and the State intelligence agencies are at work, we need to recognise a very significant fact that the best, actionable and prompt intelligence on internal security often comes from the police stations.” The Prime Minister said that a three-pronged action on community policing, police reforms and informed use of technology was needed, to make this happen.

“Bridging the gap of mistrust that exists between the police and community will go a long way in collecting actionable intelligence. This also brings me to the idea of involving the academia and professionals, who are experts in the field of data mining and cyber security, in policing,” he added.

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