Other key recommendations that remain pending for implementation include using Aadhaar data to the advantage of police, compiling a “data bank” of government employees living in the jurisdiction of a police station, and “honouring” journalists who portray the police positively in their reports.
All state police forces must “educate people to enable the move to cashless transactions”, the Home Ministry has recommended, and asked Union Territories and particularly the Delhi Police, “to take the lead role in this exercise”. The letter asks officers in charge of police stations in large towns about action taken to reach out to shopkeepers and traders in their jurisdictions to educate them.
