THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION
- The International Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ICADR) was registered as a Society in 1995.
- It is an autonomous organization working under the aegis of the Ministry of Law and Justice, with its headquarters in New Delhi and Regional Centres in Hyderabad and Bengaluru.
- It has been established to promote, popularize and propagate alternative dispute resolution methods to facilitate earlier resolution of disputes and to reduce the burden of arrears in courts.
POLICE
- Public order and police being State subjects under the Constitution, police is maintained and controlled by states.
- The police force in a state is headed by the Director General of Police.
- State is divided into convenient territorial divisions called ranges and each police range is under the administrative control of a Deputy Inspector General of Police. A number of districts constitute the range.
- District police is further sub-divided into police divisions, circles and police- stations.
- Police set up in big cities like Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Nagpur, Pune, etc., is directly under a Commissioner of Police who enjoys magisterial powers.
- The central government maintains Central Police forces, Intelligence Bureau (IB), Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), institutions for training of police officers and forensic science institutions to assist the states.
