SIKKIM POLICE - A STUDY OF ITS HISTORY, COMPOSITION AND CHALLENGES AHEAD

The State of Sikkim is the smallest state of India in terms of population, but due to its sharing international border with three countries makes it strategically important. Moreover, with ever increasing population, tourists and migrant workers, increase in traditional crimes and also new age crimes like cyber offences is on a rise. The Sikkim Police, a small but capable unit since its inception 125 years ago, has been playing a vital role in maintaining law and order in the state and to a large extent has achieved that objective.  However, times are changing and with the new challenges the Sikkim police has to adapt and in fact stay step ahead in dealing with this evolving challenges. These will require introducing new forensics measures and technology to detect and collect evidences. However, the biggest challenges that the police are facing at present is increasing instances of cyber offences. Detection and prevention of cyber offences require specialised knowledge and specialised technological infrastructure.