Though many former IPS officers have tried luck in polls, the numbers are relatively less when it comes to police commissioners taking this route. BJD's Arup Patnaik is one of them.
Opposition says by creating new post & appointing Deven Bharti, BJP wants to create 'dual power structure' within police force. Deputy CM, however, says it's like 'adding missing link'.
The Uttar Pradesh govt implemented the Commissionerate system in Lucknow and Noida earlier this year, but touting its success misses the bigger picture.
The clips, in which police chief Bhaskar Rao is purportedly talking to a power broker, have renewed allegations of political appointments in the police.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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