Amit Shah urges police officers to be ready to implement change in Criminal Justice System
Aug 25, 2023
New Delhi [India], August 26 : Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday urged police officers to be ready to implement change in the criminal justice system at the grassroots level.
He was addressing the two-day National Security Strategies Conference 2023, which concluded on Friday.
He stressed upon the need to provide timely justice to the citizens and ensure a system that would guarantee constitutional rights to them.
The Union Home Minister urged the top police leadership to transform their approach to dealing with the country’s internal security problems. He laid emphasis on the use of modern technology in Policing and suggested the implementation from lower police ranks of the Constabulary to the higher formations.
Quoting the recent introduction of new laws in the Parliament, he laid down a vision for revamping the entire Criminal Justice system. He urged the police officers that when the new laws passed by the parliament they should be ready to implement them at the grassroots level to revamp the criminal justice system.
The Union Home Minister underscored the significance of the use of digital technology in the entire process of investigation and prosecution. He advocated new initiatives for ushering in technology-led Policing to meet the future demands of a revamped Criminal Justice System.
Amit Shah flagged the emergence of technological advancement in Artificial Intelligence and termed it as a threat as much as an opportunity. He urged the Police to learn to use AI to its advantage while preparing to deal with its adverse effects.
Shah exhorted the participants to work hard in the next 25 years to achieve the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make India a leading nation by 2047. While suggesting the importance of learning from other countries, he impressed upon the participants to set an example in the next 25 years so that people from other countries learn from the Indian example.
