01180pab a2200157 454500 180718b2001 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Iyer, T.G.L. Time to trust 2001 p.30-34 Jan-Mar The public do not trust the police although they have to depend on them. This puts them in a unique predicament. The mistrust between police and public is a historical creation. Laws, whichs govern the police, were created to raise the trust of the people in British Empire so that the colonial occupation may continue forever. The police were given more fetters so that they could not serve the people but only masters who were ruling the people. The police has been misused and abused leading to the decline in the rule of law and thereby increasing distrust in police performance. This trend can be reversed only if the police are insulated from the extraneous control of politicians and made accountable to the law alone. When trust is reposed in police, there will be proper response from the police to honour the trust. - Reproduced Police Indian Police Journal 49333 49333 49333 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 48, Issue no: 1 AR49761 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR