Police Complaint Experiment

A newspaper article from 2007 reported an experiment ordered by the Director General of Police for the state of Tamil Nadu in which 85 policemen were sent as complainants to police stations where they were unknown.  They reported back that "some of them were abused, some others beaten up."  The purpose of the study was to improve the image of the police.  The Director General said that "...if the police deviate from the principle as to what they should do...", "...they would tarnish the image of the force...", and '...realising that image of the force had taken a beating [pun intended?], a 'police image project' was launched." They also decided to create a course at the Police Training College on human rights and police image.  Emphasis on image in the original.  (This article was in one of the police torture files I've been reading at my office, which has a special emphasis on ending torture in India, where it is estimated 1.8 million people are tortured every year, mostly by the police.)