DR GAUTAM GHOSH –THINK TANK OF ASIA
DR GAUTAM GHOSH –THINK TANK OF ASIA
BY MRS G Ghosh BSC(H), LLB , MBA
With his vast expertise in the field of Education, Human
Resource Development ,Law , Management/, Politics – he is one of the most
demanded resource personalities of Asia.
Dr Ghosh is a multi
dimensional public figure, a voracious speaker, a prolific author, social
entrepreneur and an innovator, a philanthropist and an asset in every sense of
the word
His book titled Police Accountability
at the Cutting Edge Level – published in 2007 – has been kept in
the many prestigious libraries
across the world , including the famous
Shanghai
Library of China
, which preferred to keep it as a prized collection [2] http://www.library.sh.cn/dzyd/xstj/booklist.asp?id=3651)-
Shanghai
is the largest city in China. It is the center of economy, finance, trade and
shipping in mainland China. (The State Council Information Office of the
People’s Republic of China, 2009). The city “also holds a leading place in
China's arts, sciences and education. … its first library dates to 150 years
ago”. (Shanghai Library, n. d., para. 1) Shanghai Library was founded in 1952.
Six years later, it became the second largest comprehensive public library in
China after merging with three other libraries in Shanghai. In 1995, the
Institute of Scientific and Technological Information of Shanghai was merged
with Shanghai Library, “resulting in an advanced, comprehensive public library,
the first ever in the country that combines public library services with
SciTech and industry research information functions”. [3]
A library is a curated collection
of sources of information and similar resources, selected by experts and made
accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing. It provides
physical or digital access to material, and may be a physical location or a
virtual space, or both.[4]
Getting a space in the book shelf of Shanghai
library is no mean task , - The Shanghai Library
(Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of Shanghai) is a national
postdoctoral research center, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism Research
Center for Public Culture Affairs, the branch of the National Cultural
Information Resource Sharing Project in Shanghai, the Shanghai Historical
Collection Preservation and Conservation Center, the main library of the
Shanghai Central Library System, the "Cutting-edge Technology Development
Research Center" of the Shanghai soft science research base, and the
Information Center of Shanghai Cultural Creative Industry and each book is kept
after conducting a thorough selection
process by experts of highest degree [5]
While, today, Police oversight and accountability are hotly
debated issues; (5) more than a decade back , in 2007, Dr Ghosh has visualized this and have chronologically
analyzed the requirements of Police accountability in his book , the Chinese
Scholars must have visualized the potentialities of Dr Ghosh a decade back and
have aptly decided to keep his book in their famous library .
Beneath the shining economic development in a
seemingly harmonious society, China’s social control apparatus, particularly
its police forces, is experiencing a crisis of legitimacy and trustworthiness.
The Lei case [6] has crystallized both sources and consequences of public
discontent with the police. Notwithstanding three decades of the rule of law
campaign and successive waves of police reforms, China’s domestic policing has
frequently run counter to such internationally accepted principles as
fairness, accountability, transparency, and human rights. The government’s
obsession with stability maintenance and heavy reliance on the police to reach
that goal, coupled with an absence of checks and balances, have made the police
extremely prone to abusive, even illegal, behaviour.
Recent research on Chinese evaluations of
police trustworthiness has revealed several interesting findings regarding
factors affecting public trust and image[7]
.
Aware of the detrimental impact of low police
legitimacy and public trust, the government has rolled out a number of
measures, such as requiring video recording of criminal interrogation and
police interaction with the public, to enhance police integrity and
accountability.
Most strikingly, way back in 2007 , ,
Dr Ghosh have pointed out that Civilian oversight
has two important aims: ensuring public
confidence in the police and achieving the rule of law. Public confidence in a police service helps
the police service maintain public safety. The rule of law is also important
because it’ is fundamental to good governance
As
an expert ,on Policing , Dr Ghosh in
his book , have precisely explained both the
civilian-led oversight mechanisms. as well as of the mechanism that investigates police officers whose
actions led to the serious injury or death of an individual and of police
officers who allegedly breaks the law. (
Judicial Oversight ) Dr Ghosh has also highlighted the elements of Executive vis a vis the Parliamentary
oversight of the police which
embodies the ultimate democratic legitimacy as the Parliament exercise
legislative, budgetary and monitoring functions before, during and after police
actions.
The book is unique as it has put
forth the importance of leveraging good police public relation which not only enhances the
public perception of police legitimacy and trustworthiness and but also acts an essential
tool of maintaining Police Accountability – In fact , Dr Ghosh’s idea of Public Participative Policing model
(PPP- Model ) is today - a role model for
an accountable police service across the world .
3
Shanghai Library. (2015). Brief history. Retrieved November 19, 2016 at http://www.library.sh.cn/Web/news/aboutus/index.html.
6
No
Trial for Beijing Officers Over Death of Environmentalist-The New York Times- By Chris Buckley and Adam
Wu Dec. 23, 2016
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