Singer Aruna Lama has an impressive song – ‘This time the heart is torn, what can be sewn? What can be avoided?’ As the song says, the Nepal Police has a story and pain. Now the heart of the police has also been torn to the point where it cannot be sewn up by the pressure of public service and public distrust. The state of mind of the police, whose own colleagues and friends were stabbed, brutally and brutally killed in the Bhadra 24 protest, and who were chased into the river with sticks, is truly irreparably torn.

The scenes of the same policemen who were chased and risked their lives to save the common citizen trapped in the river have reminded us once again – the call to ‘kill the purple with a gun’. With broken hearts and burdened by many heavy burdens of stress, the policemen are once again trying to celebrate ‘Police Day’.

For the police, Police Day is usually a special festival celebrated with joy. However, this time, Police Day stands on the foundation of the cruel and down-to-earth reality of the intimate stories and suffering of the constrained policemen. On this day, it is necessary to review the factors of the constraints and irony of the police service. On this day, it is necessary to discuss the correct ways to identify and solve the problems of the police. 

Why are those same doorsteps now strange to the policemen who work day and night at the doorsteps of the common citizen on the minimum salary and service facilities received from the government? Why should they even get poisoned by themselves? Why is the sacrifice or professional contribution of the police not appreciated? Why should the police bear the burden of the blame of other parties that cannot lead the country to a new roadmap of good governance and change? What are the internal and external reasons why the police should continue to be the victims of the neglect, hatred and abuse of the common citizen? Why do the common citizen consider the police to be the cause of the misdeeds and ill-effects of those in power? When will the issue of the police paying a huge price for undeserved reasons end? Is it possible for the police to continue providing professional and quality services while being dragged into the abyss of disgrace and abuse prevalent in the state? 

Now the police are standing naked and helpless at the crossroads of these common questions. Another need of the hour is to examine the factors of the strength, weakness, bravery or cowardice of the police, who are at the center of political events of every period. It is also too late to transform the professional character of the police into the force of law. How will the current interim government crack down on the political interests behind the failure to include the conditions of police service in the Police Act in a legal manner? That has become a subject of debate. The dilemma of whether the issues of purification and strengthening of the organization in the police service will again be overlooked or confused has also begun to surface. It is relevant to comment on these and similar issues on the occasion of Police Day.

What can be the long-term measures to transform the 'poor' police into a 'heroic' police? It is also necessary to make the psychology of the police, who are deprived of facilities in service and are in a dilemma in their work, strong and fearless. To transform the police into a force for exercising power, there needs to be a radical change in the conditions of training, curriculum, appointment, retirement, and service facilities. Training with old-fashioned thinking and style cannot develop a people-responsive police service. A modern-people-oriented police organization cannot be established by copying the power-oriented training prepared during the British rule in India. 

The distance between the police and society should be socialized. For that, a comprehensive program should be formulated and a community program should be implemented at the local level as a campaign with the participation of the general public. Restructuring and reorganization of the police organization is also necessary. A policy of giving wide space to new entrants and a respectful farewell policy should be implemented under the Golden Handshake program for those waiting for forced retirement.

A plan to modernize and technologyize the police service in a way that understands the feelings of the youth and matches the changing environment of the society should be implemented immediately. It should be taught in school and higher education curricula to make it clear that the police is not an alien entity, but an integral and indispensable part of society.

The class hostility and perspective of both cannot change until the feeling that the police and the people are complementary to each other is spread to the public level. Separate research is also needed on whether the police can become ideals regardless of the nature of society. There should also be a broad discussion on whether the police is a suitable instrument of the state or a service, as envisioned by the Police Act. And, even the traditional values ​​and beliefs of the police need to be changed and revised in line with the times.

Can the police correct the mistakes of the past or can they do it themselves? Trapped in political clutches and mazes, the police are forced to hold on to their jobs by holding their professional skills and expertise hostage. The police leadership can only work according to scale in fair weather, that is, in normal conditions. In extreme situations, its apathy towards duty is being felt on the surface by everyone. The background for this situation was created with the establishment of democracy.