Community Policing as a Public Policy

Satyajit Mohanty, Additional Director General of Police, belongs to the Indian Police Service. In a career spanning over twenty five years, he has served as police chief in four districts and as Deputy Inspector General and Inspector General in three ranges in Odisha. He holds a Master of Science and a Law degree from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, a Master’s degree in Human Rights from Pondicherry University, and a Management and Public Policy degree from IIM Bangalore and Syracuse University, New York, USA. He is a member of the National Police Mission, and has been active in formulating sound policy proposals on community policing. He has authored four books on various professional subjects, and can be visited at http://satyajitmohantyips.blogspot.in.

Rabindra Kumar Mohanty is from the Odisha Education Service and has been teaching Sociology in undergraduate and post-graduate courses in the Universities in Odisha and in the State Police Academy, Odisha, for more than twenty-five years. He holds a Master’s degree in Sociology from JNU, New Delhi, and a PhD from the Institute of Advanced Studies, Meerut, UP, with pre-PhD formalities from IIT Kanpur. As a Commonwealth Fellow, he completed a Post-doctorate degree from the University of Nottingham, UK. He has authored four books, and has published several articles in national and international journals. He acts as a consultant to World Vision International, UNDP, WFP, Action Aid and DFID. He can be visited at http://rabisir.wordpress.com.