Book by Maxwell Pereira: The Other Side of Policing

 The Other Side Of Policing 

a new book by Maxwell Pereira

Unlike the often dull and drab police writings that lean more on academic hypotheses, this book written in an easy flowing simple narrative style, often in lighter vein, provides a fresh and engaging look at the gripping issues confronting contemporary law enforcement in the Indian context. In addition to the die-hard traditional crimes, the book discusses policing the ever newer challenges thrown up by emerging technologies, lifestyles and growing aspirations of an evolving 'democratic' society, of a people still stigmatised as hosting the world's largest chunk of those below the poverty line – all in an environment of the current bullish and booming economy steered and governed by a highly politicized bureaucracy and criminalized polity with scant regard for the rule of law.  more