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42Revisiting Police Lawssociety or police. If passed in its current form it will ensure that police functioning will not improve and it will remaina force that imposes the law instead of becoming a service that upholds the law. At the moment the public has littlefaith in the police, which it views as abusive, corrupt and broken. The people of Punjab deserve first-rate policing andnothing less. This is the one chance to reform the police. There is no moment to be lost.This submission represents a comprehensive consideration of the DPPA and our correspondingrecommendations. There are several provisions which we feel need amendment or need to be deleted from the DraftAct. (Please note that our analysis does not discuss those sections in the Draft Act which we approve.) We hope thatthe Review/Drafting Committee and the Government will give our submission careful consideration. We also do notclaim that the recommendations are complete in themselves. However, public input into legislative drafting is awelcome initiative and must be encouraged and continued.