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Absence of any prescribed procedure in law about the appointment and the removal.
The political executive in the state enjoys enormous discretion and wield unregulated power to select and appoint officers of their choice as the heads of their police forces and remove them when they are not found to be aligned with the Government.
Lack of independent processes has led to appointment and removal the basis of which is questionable and even if the procedure has been laid, the proceedings are opaque.
While the principles of democratic accountability necessitate the police chief to remain answerable to the elected government at all times, the moot reform issue is in ensuring the right balance between conditioning the government’s legitimate role in appointing or removing the police chief with the need to safeguard the chief’s operational autonomy.
