Last year, six police officers faced music for similar charges. Seven officers are among the tainted personnel this year.
Serving police officers say the numbers are not alarming as they reflect the seriousness of the officers to clean up the department.
“Serious efforts are being made to give a new, citizen-friendly face to the department. Cases of suspension and departmental inquiries escalate only when higher authorities are determined to act on the erring officers and personnel and patiently listen to those who come forward with complaints against the police,” said a senior official.
However, he acknowledged that there is lobbying in the department to work in what is seen as plum posting and that corruption cases in the force are a manifestation of this deep malaise.
However, veterans do not share this optimism. “The accused police have blown the discipline and principles of the police department to the wind. These are the people who are affected by the corruption of others. But they demoralize the force,” Raghavendra AuradkarFormer DGP said.
Some officials attributed the incidents of corruption in their department to the lockdown, work pressure, quick transfers and political interference.
Police personnel suspended for demanding money
This year all 22 suspended police officers and personnel were charged with illegal activities and demanding money from the complainants or accused. Incidentally, there were women officers accused in three high-profile corruption cases that shook the city’s police this year.
Inspector Katyayani Alva and Constable Manjunath and pandurang On May 21, people attached to the Sanjaynagar police station were suspended for illegally detaining a doctor of a private hospital and extorting Rs 5.5 lakh from him.
Another Inspector S Parvatamma, Sub Inspector HM Anjinappa and Constable Umesh, attached RMC Yard The police station was suspended on July 22 for forcing a youth to drink ganja and then registering a case under the NDPS Act.
In the third case, Inspector Renuka JM, Sub Inspector Naveen Kumar, Assistant Sub Inspector Ganesh N and constable Hemant Kumar have been involved. Whitefield Cen Crime The police station was suspended on July 29 for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 5 lakh from an interior designer for not being arrested in a cheating case.
The six police officers who were charged with illegal activities last year were ACP Prabhushankar and MR Mudavi and Inspectors C Niranjan Kumar and Ajay RM.
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