Current Scenario> Problems in Police Force> Relation between public and police force> Introduction

The distrust of the Indian police has reached a point where citizens rather avoid the police than report an incident due to harassment and the discomfort at the police station. Those who are compelled to go to the police sometimes even turn to less legal approaches, such as bribing, using influence or even approaching middlemen. The current prevailing public attitude is that criminals are getting away from justice. However this mostly applies to suspects associated  with political influence and money. The suspects who have neither are detained by the system  and face the risk of third degree measures being used against them after their arrest. The  following chapter will display some facts and figures on the relation between the public and the police force, the chapter is solely based on Transparency International India's study "India  Corruption Study 2005".