Harley Davidson for Gujarat Police?

Gujarat Police Gets Harley-Davidsons.Harley-Davidson bikes are used by police departments across the globe, with India being the latest name to add its name to the list. Though Gujarat Police is now the first Indian state police to get the Harleys, the exact number of the bikes purchased remains unknown. But a senior retired cop remarked that this may just prove to be a toy because, 1. Engine seizure during hot Indian summers. Bikes with smaller hp survived the tempt exceeding 49 deg in shade for a long time. 2 Poor performance in bylans in old city areas. 3. Running cost is very high since all parts are import items. and not readily available off the shelf. 4. Requires well built and tall persons to man the machine. 5. Suitable only for highway patrols as a chase vehicle 6. Requires high octane fuel not readily found at every petrol pump and then more costly when found. 7 A departmental show off item. 8. CM will find it a good item in the carcade msking a lot of noise

City of Thieves

It’s not for nothing that Delhi is called India’s crime capital. The total value of stolen goods in the city equals its annual budget. While the value of the haul this year is estimated at Rs 36,000 crore, the total budget estimate for the entire state for 2014-15 was Rs 36,766 crore. According to the Delhi Police crime statistics, cash and goods worth Rs 34,594 crore were stolen in 2013 and the figure was Rs 21,211 crore for 2012 More here

Assam & Indian Establishment

as commented by a retired senior cop Years ago during an informal 'samvad' in Guwahati a pesky officer of a para-military force had asked me and others whether the Indian state would have watched helplessly if millions of Pakistani infiltrators had swamped Punjab and Rajasthan to alter the demography of north India.Frankly, I had no answer, nor could any other police officer respond to the searching question

Mumbai police control room on 26/11 confused rambling

Of the stories about the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai, one has remained largely untold: the sense of panic in the Mumbai Police Control Room (PCR) when the phones started ringing, a panic so strong it threatened, at least for the first five hours, to overwhelm the police force’s response. Part of that story can now be told. The Indian Express has obtained and authenticated 4,396 phone calls made to PCR running into 89 hours of conversations. These begin with the first one from a taxi driver outside Cafe Leopold close to 10 pm on November 26 until 11.42 pm on November 28, when a caller from Punjab asks if his relative’s name is on the morgue list More here

ISIS & Bangalore

According to a report revealed by Channel 4, the most influential twitter account of the Iraqi militant group Islamic State (IS), which has taken 39 Indian workers as hostage, has been found to be operated by an Indian executive working out of Bangalore More Here

Uber rape

some questions

1. why cant our judiciary judge cases in time bound manner. this person had 8 cases pending against him
2. despite being a habitual offender he was repeatedly given bail by court. Should not courts introspect?
3. when cases were registered against him in delhi or haryana, did local police bother to check up with their counterparts in UP about his criminal history?
4. the private party was submitted a fraud police character verification certificate. is there a standard format for same? is there any way any private party can look into a database and check veracity of such certificates? NO