Today I hapenned to read Nimish Adani's blog about the incident where he was treated brutally by the railway officials and then misled by police. I am very sorry for whatever hapenned to him and I totally appreciate his courage and endurance in bringing this to light.

Well, we all know its a bad world out there. Thanks to the info age, we all get to know all the bad things happening and we end up becoming paranoid day by day. But... there are few good things out there too. Its only human that we tend to make a hue and cry when something bad happens, but when something good happens, we don’t seem to propagate it enough. So, lemme narrate the incident that made me feel good about the police, as against the impression most of us have about them.

I will try to wrap it up in short.
This happened around 2 years back. There was a burglary at my home in HSR Layout and we had lost jewellery and electronic goods worth more than a lakh. Please dont ask me why I had so much jewellery at home and not in a bank locker. Its a stupid long story which I don’t intend to bore you with now.
After the theft happened that night police came home with sniff dogs and tried to trace the thief, took complaint from us, estimated the loss, and asked us to go to madivala police station and submit some papers the next day. All that went fine.
We did all that just as formality and didn’t have any hope of getting the stuff back ever. We were depressed for a while and cursed ourselves and our bad luck. After a few months, we got over the incident and went on with our lives. We moved into a new house, our mobile number changed due to some problem, my husband's office moved to a new location etc. We never bothered to inform these changes to the police as we never thought it would be of any use.
6 months later, we get a call from a police station in Banaswadi. The thief was caught in that area and with the help of the records, they could figure out that he was the one who stole our stuff and a few others'. So whatever loot was seized from him was distributed among all the people whose houses he had broken into. We got gold worth 25-30K.
Now my point here is - the police guys could have easily kept the stuff with them and not handover to us. They didnt even have any valid contact info of ours. But still they made all the efforts to trace us and made sure that we got our share.
I definitely commend their act, specially in the times when corruption is all over the place and when its very tempting to grab some easy money.While its sad that incidents like Nimish's strengthen the negative image that our police department has, there are also some good things they do out there, only not loud enough.