Mumbai,February 02 :Afte the pune mayhem Mumbai cps are identifying police personals with mental illness problems.‘ COP RUN AMOK’ THE WORST FEAR AFTER PUNE MAYHEM
WITHIN hours of Santosh Mane going on a rampage in Pune, senior police Inspectors across Mumbai got a message from the police wireless. The message asked them to submit a list of policemen under them who were under treatment for mental illnesses. Based on the lists the senior cops have been told to check on how many of the cops with mental illnesses have firearms issued to them.
The message reportedly came from Mumbai Police Commissioner Arup Patnaik himself.
According to police officials the Mane incident has made the police top brass sit up and realise that a person having a mental illness should not be carrying a gun. Police officials said that soon the senior police inspectors would be told to take the gun away from those under treatment for mental illnesses and give them a less ‘ stressful’ posting.
Patnaik has a good reason for issuing the directive. A police officer’s job is easily more stressful then that of an MSRTC driver. Long working hours that stretch to up to 14 to 16 hours a day, no proper living accommodation an unsympathetic superior brass and an even more unsympathetic political class, has made many a police officer lose his cool.
Between 2006 and 2010, 42 cops have killed themselves. It is only a matter of time before the stress gets so much that the cops would turn on the people they are sworn to protect and serve.