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police is the most visible face of the state. The level of how civilised a
country is can be roughly gauged by how the police treats its citizens.
Policing is one of the most important parts of governance. A sovereign state
cannot implement its programmes and policies in the absence of an effective
control over the the police and law enforcement agencies. Philosophically
speaking, no citizen is allowed to indulge in violence, take law in her own
hands, or hurt others, but the state has the monopoly over the
officially-sanctioned violence and, in extreme cases, it can even take lives if
so necessitated and sanctioned by the law of the land.
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