"The police of the 21st century cannot be a brute force. It will have to be a civilised force. Patience and control has to be practised and followed by police forces and the personnel on ground while dealing with hard and challenging situations like riots and protesting crowds. "We took a pledge in 1942 and called it the 'Quit India' movement...we achieved independence in the next 5 years, that is in 1947. This is the power of determination and pledge," Singh said.The minister asked the forces to contribute to the 2022 'new India' vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi The RAF is a specialised anti-riot and crowd control unit under the Central Reserve Police Force ( CRPF ) and it was raised and made fully operational this day in 1992.It has ten battalions (of about 10,000) based in various parts of the country in order to cut down response time to counter an incident of trouble.The ten RAF bases are in Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Mumbai, Delhi, Aligarh, Coimbatore, Jamshedpur, Bhopal and Meerut.

Source: Times of India October 07, 2017 08:26 UTC