On the evening of December 16, 2012, the appalling black bus gang rape in Delhi, India was the prototype of the TV series [Delhi Crime]. The victim female college student was not only sexually assaulted, but also seriously injured by abuse, and died after 13 days of painful treatment in the hospital.
The entire Indian society was enraged and panic spread. People took to the streets to condemn the atrocities and accuse the police and the government of incompetence.
The drama captures this panic and turns the process of catching the murderer into a war against time to restore the national security and trust. The focus is on the conscientious deputy police chief of South Delhi and her subordinates. The police system in Delhi has serious problems such as insufficient police force, budget constraints, and lazy police officers. The Deputy Commissioner of Police has to resort to extraordinary measures at extraordinary times.
This was not an ordinary criminal offense, and the horrific scale shocked and disturbed everyone. The deputy police chief was persuading his daughter not to study abroad, telling her that Delhi was getting better, but at this time such a terrible black bus gang rape happened.
Catching the murderer in the shortest possible time is not only an account of the police to the public, but also a promise to a mother who longs for her daughter to stay in India - to prove to her that India is still safe. However, the occurrence of the case has declared her failure, and she can only do her best to make up for her daughter's disappointment.
It was late at night when he received a call from his subordinate to report the case, and the Deputy Police Commissioner was very uneasy—there had never been a case where the case was reported to her late at night. She got up immediately and rushed to the hospital, only to find that the seriousness of the matter was beyond imagination, so she immediately called all her subordinates to the hospital and launched an investigation overnight.
She dared not go home to face her daughter, who had only made a bet the night of the crime that Delhi was as safe as abroad. Suddenly, it's hell here. She must catch the murderer as soon as possible, and not let this case end like other rape cases.
The story of the [Delhi crime] both affirms the role of the police in the case and tactfully points to the deep-seated dereliction of duty in the Indian bureaucracy. The euphemism lies in the fact that the characters in the play are all given a helpless situation. In the powerful bureaucratic system, they have enough energy and lack of energy, develop the habit of being passive and slack, and gradually assimilate into corrupt accomplices.
The title of the first episode pointed the spearhead of the security problem at a deeper level-Derry is brightly lit, full of traffic, and crowded. The subtitles indicate that 11,000 vicious cases occur in this city every year, and the already insufficient police force needs to be deployed. Come out to protect the big man.
Two naked victims were found in a ditch under a viaduct as police carried them out of the crowd. The following plot did not start the investigation directly from the police, but presented the life and work of the deputy police chief and his subordinates on the day of the crime in a relatively large space.
Elsewhere, the show neither portrays the police as a group with a halo of justice, nor does it see them as the culprits of policing problems. Instead, it strives to give the police a bottom-line — a bottom-line in India’s political and social environment.
The camera first took us to the home of an ordinary policeman, a place similar to a slum. The elderly policeman was sitting on the ground eating breakfast, and his wife was working while sick; due to the lack of police force, he had been on duty for many days in a row, and he even bought a lot of money for his wife. The medicine can only be completed during working hours, and was scolded by the boss.
Plainclothes police officers, newly recruited female police officers, captains, chiefs, and deputy chiefs of police appeared one after another. The ills in the police system are clear at a glance: front-line police officers are overworked and depressed; The police work passively and disregard professionalism.
The Deputy Commissioner of Police and the newly recruited female police officer are positive figures in the police system and do their due diligence. The deputy chief of police is angry at his subordinates' dereliction of duty, but has no ability to turn the tide; her daughter, disillusioned with the living conditions in Delhi, wants to study abroad for university. The newly recruited female police officer respects the Deputy Commissioner of Police and hopes to become a police officer like her. But from the bottom up, negativity, helplessness, disappointment, anger pervade the Delhi police system, and the hope of making a difference becomes an idealism.
The brutal and inhumane atrocities sounded the alarm for social security. The deputy police chief had to personally supervise the case and stay at the police station until all the murderers were brought to justice. Otherwise, the case may cause even greater disturbances due to the delay in being solved, and it is even more likely that it will eventually be left unresolved.
On a large scale, the Deputy Commissioner of Police wants to regain the safety of the society and the trust of the people back into the hands of the police; on a small scale, she does not want her daughter to be disappointed and frightened by Delhi and leave India and herself .
The investigations and arrests have mobilized all the forces in the hands of the Deputy Police Commissioner, who are being put under pressure from senior government officials, the media and the public. The inefficient operation of the police system turned into efficient operation overnight. The troops were divided into several groups, working overtime day and night, and put into the investigation with a state of rigor that had never been seen before.
Along with their investigation, the lens penetrated into the fabric of Indian society—the people's thinking and living environment, the relationship with the police and the government, the ecology of India's political system, etc. All the police officers involved in the investigation marked their years of police service when they first appeared on the scene. This number initially gives a professional confidence. How long the trust can last and how strong it is depends on their actions. Otherwise, numbers are just numbers.
The series creates a fairly neutral public opinion field, and the police are the focus, but not the only ones who should be blamed. The Deputy Police Commissioner, the newly recruited female police officer, and a capable female police officer are relatively idealized characters. At critical moments, they can reverse the impression that the police are incompetent in the hearts of the public, but expecting the appearance of ideal characters cannot change Indian society. ills. This malady is exactly what the Deputy Commissioner of Police wants to change, and is hated by the victims and the public.
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