Wednesday 4 July 2012

Increase in Penalty/Ticket and Commission to Cops


For Particular in India, people thinks that the most corrupted department is Home Department (police/cop). This statement is due to publishing authorized material by media. Many times people have seen kind of videos, read articles etc are due to the major participation of media to communicate to the people. Some times sting operations also have been published in front of the people as breaking news. By observing these kind of activities, people thinks almost all cops are corrupt.

I want to say one example, the most commonly corruption footage would be avail at traffic signal. In India, there may be 4-5 cops working on each traffic signal as a part of their duty. If someone breaks the traffic rule, these guys have to punished them by charging penalty as per government rule. But these cops most of the times don't do entry in their register even after charging penalty and collecting the money. The income of that particular transactions, they doesn't show on record & its off the record which turns in to black money of their personal income. For example, the penalty of not wearing helmet while driving is about Rs. 50/- but the cop charge about Rs. 20-30 to the person who breaks this rule. This amount goes into his/her pocket as black money. These penalty charges are nominal compare to the income of that person now a days. So, the fellow who breaking the rules will continue the same due to affordable penalty charges.

I want to share one idea on this topic, which is as follows;

The penalty charges should be increased to the mark. it should be directly related to the income of that person like percentage of the income. It would be good if government official declare the commission (in percentage) of the revenue collected by cop. So, cops get additional income due to commission while on duty. This commission type of business is avail in most of the industries now a days.

For example,

in continue of the above example of "Not wearing the Helmet while driving", if the penalty charge increase to the minimum Rs. 1000/-. Cops collects the Rs.1000/- from the person who breaks this rule and submit to the government. Government pays him/her Rs. 250/- as commission to cops (total collected income) & remaining Rs. 750/- as per current revenue of government. By this kind of exercise, there might be some benefits like people obey traffic rules, cops records all transactions to the inward register, cops gets side income. And due to official income as commission, the mentality of "Personal Income" goes down. Corruption rate goes down.

Look forwarding your valued inputs on this idea.

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