Not just political interference but also political dependence: Criminals feed the politicians with their black money and in return politicians ensure that their business is not affected. Police officers are dependent on politicians for their promotions and placement. If they try to do anything to make them unhappy, officer's fear that they can be transferred to a 'bad' location. So, police have to ignore criminals and this vicious cycle goes on.
Poor training and equipment: Just look at the equipments on the belts of a US police officer and an Indian police officer. You will understand what I mean. Moreover, in the wake of new threats like terrorism and electronic crime, the metro-police needs to be much better trained. Not just this, the police do a sloppy job of collecting evidence from crime scene.
Lack of control and accountability: Somebody said that "political interference may be dirty words but it is another term for civilian control." But in my opinion, there are better ways to have public control. For each police station, statistics should be maintained about conviction rate, case FIR to charge-sheet turnaround time etc. Also, the career file of all prominent police officers should be made public, maybe posted on a website. If an investigation is going-on on an officer, public should be aware of it. Why are the criteria for promotions of officers such a closely protected secret?
Archaic rules: The rules have become aged and desperately in need of help. There is a lot of scope for re-framing new laws and abolishing irrelevant ones. New India requires new and better laws.
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