No nation can be built without rule of law: Ajit Doval

Addressing the trainee officers of Indian Police Service (IPS) at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy (SVPNPA) here, he said they have a vital role to play in nation building through enforcement of laws.

Police forces have a greater role than just maintaining law and order, and this includes border management spanning over 15,000 km covering Pakistan, China, Myanmar and Bangladesh with which India has security issues, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval said here on Friday.

Speaking at the passing out parade of the 73rd batch of IPS probationers at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy here, Doval said India’s sovereignty went as far as the last police station’s jurisdiction from the coastal areas to the border areas. Maintaining law and order in every part of the 32 lakh square km of India was the responsibility of the police forces.

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“It is not only the policing, about which you have been trained well, but it will extend. You will be responsible for the border management of this country. 15,000 km of the border, most of it has got peculiar problems of its own,” he said.

Wars have ceased to become an effective instrument for political and military objectives as they are unaffordable and with an uncertain outcome, he said, adding that it was the civil society that could be subverted, divided and manipulated ‘to hurt the interest of the nation’ with new frontiers of war.

“If internal security fails, no country can be great. If people are not secure, people are not safe, they cannot rise to the potential and probably the country will never grow,” he said.
Stating that the strength of the police force in the country was 21 lakh with 35,480 personnel sacrificing their lives so far, Doval also remembered 40 IPS officers who were martyred.

The NSA, stating that the quintessence of democracy did not lie in the ballot box, also said it lay in laws made by the people who are elected through the electoral process. “Laws are not as good as they are made. No nation can be built where rule of law has failed. People cannot feel safe and secure where law enforcers are weak, corrupt, partisan,” he added.

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