Check out http://www.saferindia.com/
Kiran Bedi, the famous woman police officer of India that now resigned due to apparently distasteful decisions (?) by the government, has now started this Mission "to strengthen Police services to provide Safer India and NOT an alternative to Police responsibilities" by acting as "a bridge between the Police and the complainant". (There are other ex-IPS officers and other bigwigs with her in this Mission.)
The ex-police officer gives the due regard to the Police system in India, by emphasizing that one should contact Safer India only after lodging a complaint with the local police and visiting them a few times and if inaction still persists. It's interesting to see that the Mission operates electronically in all its correspondence between the complainant and the police. Given the reasons for Ms. Bedi's resignation, and her track record, I see this attempted mission as a good start towards better policing in India. Now, it's up to the citizens to approach the police without giving the common yet lame excuse that the police wouldn't care.
Source: A news item in the Telugu daily newspaper Eenadu:
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