Background checks : Improvement required
Background checks are a need of the hour for police, landlords, employees, banks and various other agencies. Today a criminal can commit a crime in one locality and then move and commit a crime again in another locality or city without anyone the wiser.
How is a landlord for example to know if his tenant is a mass murderer or a thief? How is a bank to know if a person is a fraud or is in the red with another bank? How is an employer supposed to know if the candidate is a sexual offender. for e.g cab companies?
Today we are endangering our citizens with false background check reports and shady details. We need to tighten our systems and processes to keep our citizens safe.
Unlike abroad where data is logged into a common database accessible to all law enforcement, in India we still do things manually.
Some issues :
- Police stations are not online
- Police stations do not want to log in complaints in order to deflate the number of crimes in their area
- Minor crimes are not registered at all
- Background checks are a money making enterprise - a nexus between the police and the background check companies.
It is time to bring India on par with other countries in tracking crime by having a common database.
Some suggestions :
- Background checks should be centrally managed.
- Background checks should be done online and payment should be made online. This will remove the middlemen and the corruption
- All crimes should be captured online and paper / hard copy FIRs and complaint records should be done away with.
It is only when all of us put our heads together can we expect to find a solution to a problem that affects every citizen in this country. more
How is a landlord for example to know if his tenant is a mass murderer or a thief? How is a bank to know if a person is a fraud or is in the red with another bank? How is an employer supposed to know if the candidate is a sexual offender. for e.g cab companies?
Today we are endangering our citizens with false background check reports and shady details. We need to tighten our systems and processes to keep our citizens safe.
Unlike abroad where data is logged into a common database accessible to all law enforcement, in India we still do things manually.
Some issues :
- Police stations are not online
- Police stations do not want to log in complaints in order to deflate the number of crimes in their area
- Minor crimes are not registered at all
- Background checks are a money making enterprise - a nexus between the police and the background check companies.
It is time to bring India on par with other countries in tracking crime by having a common database.
Some suggestions :
- Background checks should be centrally managed.
- Background checks should be done online and payment should be made online. This will remove the middlemen and the corruption
- All crimes should be captured online and paper / hard copy FIRs and complaint records should be done away with.
It is only when all of us put our heads together can we expect to find a solution to a problem that affects every citizen in this country. more
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Railways must first concentrate on recovery from Free trravel of piliticians and babus and their escorts before "flexing" its muscles on hapless public more
Sep 09
Sir that is our fate and accept it, unless we can stand up together against criminalisation. Just dont worry, police knows most of the criminals and they will catch you instead of the criminals when their spouse will ask for an expensive gift, till then happy monotony. more
Aug 29
we know criminals can easily come to politics. First with land mafia, then gondaism, then finally in to politics. Now there is no means of checking the credentials of your upcoming tenant more
Aug 29
Discusions at the tip of ivory tower seldom work. Get to field. and. educate people is the only solution. to achieve. desired result. more
Aug 29
