Nagaland Police for prioritising modern laws, partnership for peaceful society

March 17, 2023 31 Views No Comment

Kohima, March 17 (MExN): The Nagaland Police has called on citizens of the state to prioritise the adoption of modern laws and continued police-public partnership to a build a peaceful society.

While noting that the Nagaland Police remains committed to and understands the importance of customary law and practices in any societies, the Director General of Police (DGP) Nagaland, Rupin Sharma, “beseeched” for the cooperation of citizens in the “greater adoption” of modern laws, which the police and modern state are guardians of.

In an appeal, he also highlighted the oscillation between two extremes in Nagaland—the traditional, customary practices and the modern codified Constitutional Law and the Criminal and Civil Laws. The traditional, customary practices are, by their very nature, localised in their evolution, development, and implementation, and he implied that their usages beyond local boundaries “are fraught with limitations and handicaps and can cause confusion.”

He said, “We, in Nagaland, witness ‘swings’ between traditional practices and modern laws, where there is a tendency to selectively adopt or fall back upon the one which benefits or suits us, to the detriment of others.”

To this end, the State top cop underscored that modern Laws emanating from the Constitutional values are more universal in application and cut across divisions like gender, age, geographical area, religion, or region and the like.

The police draw their strength from modern laws and seek citizens’ cooperation in building unique models of police-public partnership to establish a peaceful atmosphere in the state, he emphasised.

Accordingly, in the appeal dated March 14 and shared on the Nagaland Police social media handles on Thursday, the DGP said that the police will continue to act professionally within the confines of the law, and look forward to partnering with citizens to achieve this goal.

He also stressed that the Nagaland Police has had endeavoured to be at the service of the citizens all these years, and, and urged for continuing the cordial police-public relations.