Police Reforms

On 24 Magh 2066 (7 Feb. 2010), Jamim Shah was murdered on broad daylight in Kathmandu street. Soon after his murder, India’s government-controlled news agency Press Trust of India wrote about Shah: “The Nepali media mogul is alleged to have links with the underworld, including Dawood Ibrahim and Chota Rajan, allegations he had consistently denied. It was also alleged that his TV channel had received investments from underworld sources.” The TOI says about Shah’s newspapers: “Shah also ran a newspaper, Space Time, that carried anti-India propaganda.” And about his Dawood, ISI links: “In 2004, he came under the ire of the Indian government who asked Nepal to freeze the assets of Space Time Network, alleging that it was funded by Dawood. Shah is also believed to have had ISI links. However, he had stoutly denied both allegations.”
Time will tell whether Jamim was involved with Ibrahim or not. There are already speculations that he had had some relationship.

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On 13 Jan 2010, I presented my views in a seminar organized by Nepal Security Sector Network (NSSN) in Kathmandu. In this presentation i briefly talked about the current police challenges: 

Post-conflict situation;
Organized crime;
Impunity;
Losing community trust; and
Policing in federal set up.

The second part of the presentatio was on the actions required: Defining national interests and developing national security policy;
Developing new police structures;
Depoliticization of police;
Demilitarization of police;
Decentralization and Democratization of police.

The third part of the lecture was on the Special Security Program. My views were that this program was brought in haste without much planning and preparations. This program had actually no 'special' package at all.

The possible entry points for the police reforms could be:
Police structure in federal state;
Police strategic plan;
Police administration and management;
Police training.