One can understand incompetence because let’s face it, our police force doesn’t really attract the best and the brightest – just the willing. Recently, our cops have been left dousing fires from one PR mess after another and the worst aspect of all of them is that none of these fiascoes have been about competence. In colloquial Nepali, ‘chor-police’ now sounds more like a description of our entire police force rather than a kid’s game.Īnd this description, as much as it is a sweeping and rather unfair generalization of the police, is not entirely unwarranted. In every incident of note from the immediate past, whether it is the gold smuggling case or the Nirmala Pant rape and murder case, our cops have been found wanting – in terms of their character, competence, and duty to the public. Now, if we fast forward to the current climate, it is really hard to tell the good guys from the bad. In our minds, there was a clear demarcation of the black (evil) and white (good) in terms of cops and robbers embodying certain values – it was always the good police vs. In colloquial Nepali, ‘chor-police’ now sounds more like a description of our entire police force rather than a kid’s game.Īll of us role played some version of the game ‘chor-police’ (cops and robbers) while growing up.
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