07 May 2007

KPS Gill Interview


Before beginning this post, I feel the need to apologise for it. To me the subject is even more distasteful than the previous post about torture. However I do believe in the old saying to 'keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer.' I believe that this [man] is one of our greatest enemies of recent years. Dare I call him a traitor to the Sikh people?


I refer, of course to 'Kill Punish Strangle' Gill.

'Encounters Should Happen, If Required'

"However, it is not okay to stage encounters. But even they do happen, and should not," says the former Punjab police chief.

Bhavna Vij-Aurora interviews K.P.S. Gill


The man largely credited with crushing militancy in Punjab, K.P.S. Gill is a strong advocate of a proactive role for the police in fighting terrorism and organised crime. During his tenure as the Punjab police chief, his officers and men were given a free hand in cracking down on Sikh militants. He talks to Bhavna Vij-Aurora about encounter killings.

Excerpts:

How does one explain encounters?


Police officers become totally cynical. There is a sense of disenchantment since
they get to know so much during the course of their professional work. When the
conduct of judges themselves is questionable, the police officers begin to
think, who will implement the laws, who will protect society....


So, they bump off a 'terrorist' because they think he will not be punished by the country's courts..


.No, I am not saying that.

"Mistakes can happen while fighting terror, organised crime. The officer's
motives must be assessed...."


But the criminal justice system has to be strong, quick and effective to deal
with the people arrested. The primary function of the judicial system is to
protect society, not so much to punish criminals. The latter is only one of the
instruments to achieve the former. Everything
boils down to governance,
which includes an effective justice system. All countries have special
legislations to deal with terrorism, mafia and organised crime. In India,
unfortunately, if you have TADA, it is opposed; if you have POTA, it is opposed.
In the West, terrorism cases are decided in months, or at the most in a year or
two. Here, it took the courts 14 years to start reading the prolonged judgement
of the 1993 Bombay bombings

. Can encounters be discouraged, do cops necessarily have to be trigger-happy?


In my experience in policing, I have not come across any police officer who
is trigger-happy, who will kill just for the sake of it. Encounters should
happen, if required. If a terrorist or a criminal fires at the police, one
cannot expect the police personnel not to respond. There are situations when the
police have to open fire in which people may get killed. However, it is not okay
to stage encounters. But even they do happen, and should not.

Why is it that some police officers come to be known as 'encounter specialists'? Do they get carried away by the hero-like status given to them?

It is only a few states that have seen encounter specialists. Mumbai
(Maharashtra),
Delhi and now Gujarat. I cannot really say why they have come up
only in
these places. Perhaps because of the prevalent situation and nature of
crime. About hero status, the press has a major role in building them up as
iconic figures. The police have to give a correct picture of the encounter,
and
the press should report it in a responsible manner.How should one deal
with
mistaken identity encounters where innocent people are killed by the
police?In
fighting militancy and organised crime, mistakes are bound to
happen. Take the
(May 1997) shootout case in Delhi's Connaught Place where two
businessmen were
mistakenly killed by the police; the cops are still facing
trial for it. A
similar thing happened in London after the 7/7 bombings,
when an innocent
Brazilian immigrant, Jean Charles de Menezes, was shot by the
police. Nobody
raised a hue and cry over that incident, and the officers
responsible have
subsequently received promotions and there is no stigma
attached to their
action. It's important that the intentions and motives of
the officers are
correctly assessed in such cases.


So how must the authorities act against police officers caught in fake encounters or those of mistaken identity?



The police must be given a free hand to enforce the laws as they stand on
the statute, and should be taken to task if any fake encounters occur. Mistaken
identity encounters are an entirely different matter, and there are laws to deal
with these.

It is important that everything does not get politicised. The police
chief—DG or CP, as the case may be—should be allowed to determine whether the
encounter was fake, staged or real. He should be able to stand by his men when
the action has been taken in good faith. It's only if glaring shortcomings are
found that the government should come into the picture and take the perpetrators to task.



From: Outlook India

8 comments:

  1. The guy is an idiot! So Many of Indian and Punjab policemen are nothing but government paid killers, rapists, molesters, alcoholics, highway robbers! Sadly, I have to say, I am a son of a police Inspector who retired 79.

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  2. But an evil, dangerous idiot that has caused our people untold misery.

    I admire your courage and openess in speaking of your father.

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  3. Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh,

    What planet does gill live on?Unfortunately our's...but really no one raised a hue or cry about the demenzies shooting!!!!
    It nearly involved the resignation of the most senior police figure in the UK. The case was huge in the UK led to a tribunal and the officers involved were not promoted at all, where does this butcher get his information from? Seems to me he makes it up as he goes along, he was after all the 'man' that said the counter-insurgency operation on Panjab was the most humane in history!!!
    Exactly pretty much the same way he denied molesting a woman at a party whilst drunk, fortunately she was from a high powered hindu family so he couldnt walk away with impunity all those years in Panjab had probably left him feeling untouhable, this time he was convicted..no jail time..shame but when he is finally dispatched he will have the title of convicted sex offender to add to his long,long list of crimes.

    Gur Fateh

    Sukhbir Singh

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  4. WAHEGURU JI KA KHALSA WAHEGURU JI KI FATEH!!

    Sukhvir Ji,

    This one is truly a monster. As we say, 'It takes more than a turban and Singh somewhere in your name to make you a Sikh.'

    I like this picture of him; it reveals his true character!

    WAHEGURU JI KA KHALSA WAHEGURU JI KI FATEH!!

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  5. Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh,

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6927140.stm

    Please take a look at the link above blows a hole through gills asertion that the demenzies shooting in london passed without notice the enquiry into the shooting delivered its findings today...notice gill its not a whitewash you cannot begin to imagine what it is to be a police officer in a civilised country truly here in the uk you would never have made it to the position of constable and if you were tried here for your crimes you would end up dying in prison....

    Gur Fateh

    Sukhbir Singh

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  6. Dear Sukhbir Ji,

    You seem to have a lot to say about this [person], much despised by most all of us.

    We would like to invite you to write a guest post either about him or an open letter to him. All we would ask is that it be:

    a)truthful
    b)without profanity
    c)proSikh
    d)and does not openly advocate anything against USA law.

    If you would be willing, please contact me personally at my e-mail, above.

    Thanks.

    Mai

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  7. paenchodo bhindra wale diyo najaayaz olaado, tusa nu pata vi hai ki punjab terrprism de kaaran 17000 sikh mareya jo ki punjab police da mulaazam vi nahin si, saaleyo ohna de human riots kithe gaye, mere father saab to atankwaadiyan ne 2 lakh mangeya si te keha ki jekan na ditta , we would eliminate your family , dad gave 1 lakh and these maadarchods still eliminated my dad, eh taan punjab de gaddar saale pakistani sighe, jekar KPS Gill na hunda taan paen chodo asi sir te pagg nahin musalmaana wali topi paani si,tusi saare alliterate kalann ho, tuhano guru saahb ki samjha ge , kade vi samajh ni aana, kyon ki tusi moti buddi de malak ho. tusi kadi facts samjh hi nahin sakde kyon ki tusi guru de sikh nahin , guru saab de apradhi ho jo uhna atankwaadiyaan di pasha bolde ho jihna ne harmandar saahb di nirtaadar kitaa si...........

    saravjit sandhu

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  8. Great Gill RIP and thank you for crushing the khalistani terrorists

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