UPSC Ethics Simplified: Indian Police and Ethics | UPSC Current Affairs News,The Indian Express

The role of the police has an ethical or moral dimension which is not found in most other occupations. Why are police ethics different? UPSC Ethics Simplified will assist candidates in developing attitudes and approaches to solve matters relating to integrity and probity in public life, as well as evolving problem-solving perspectives on various issues and situations.

Ethics pervades all facets of human life. But in policing, there is an additional layer of ethical decision-making that most citizens do not have to engage in. The role of the police has an ethical or moral dimension which is not found in most other occupations.

Why are police ethics different?

According to Professor Seumas Miller, retired IPS officer Sankar Sen, IPS officer Prakash Mishra, and John Blacker in their book, Ethical Issues in Policing in India, life and liberty are fundamental moral values and are held to be so in all human societies, and the police routinely have to decide whether to arrest, i.e., whether or not to take away someone’s freedom, and at its extreme, sometimes they must decide whether or not to take away someone’s life.

According to these authors, while making any moral decisions, the police have to consider a complex array of actions. They have to consider the goodness and badness of a person before they can consider whether their actions are wrong. For any action taken by a person, they have to see the motivation and intentions of the action and its consequences. They have to do their jobs in accordance with the laws that are in place at that time, they say.

They say that the police may be required to face danger or hostility in order to do their duty, and predictably, in the course of their work, police officers are likely to experience a range of emotions including fear, anger, suspicion, excitement, and boredom to a far greater extent than people in other occupations. To act effectively as police, they must be able to respond to these emotions in the right way, which requires them to be emotionally intelligent.

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