| "The police have their priorities skewed," complains B Arun, a journalist with a prominent newspaper. Theoretically, Delhi has a policeman for every 223 peopl

| "The police have their priorities skewed," complains B Arun, a journalist with a prominent newspaper. Theoretically, Delhi has a policeman for every 223 people, but what’s unstated is that most of their duty hours are spent on protecting the teeming number of political leaders who crowd the nation’s capital. Policing streets therefore is shoddy as is investigation of crime". Delhi is full of construction work (flats being developed by builders). The police are too busy fleecing the builders (who are financed by the politicians to buy land) to take our calls for help. At the same time, they are literally "in the pay" of these builders, so they listen to the builders in the case of disputes with other citizens.