Internal Security Structure and Functions in India and South Africa: A Comparative Study

The internal security structure and their functioning has a responsibility to prevent, combat and investigate crime and criminal activities, maintain public order, protect and secure the inhabitants of the country's property, uphold and enforce the law, create a safe and secure environment for all people, prevent anything that may threaten the safety or security of any community, investigate any crimes that threaten the safety and security of any community. This has also been experience in India recently that the hate speeches and some emerging anti national and anti constitution ideas have created big internal security problems in the country. While the India has responded adequately to external threats, its responses to internal challenges have been totally inadequate. Comparatively, it is very opposite in South Africa. The India's inner weaknesses and instability has also encouraged external threats and pose a serious challenge to national security but South Africa has a safe boundary comparatively to India. Internal security experts believe that states in the third world like India and South Africa have a higher level of concern with domestically generated threats to security because they have not been able to create domestic, political and social consciousness of sufficient strength to eliminate larger threats. This research paper is emphasizes the internal security structure and functions of India in comparison to South Africa in order to strengthen the relationship of the both nations and tried to give some important suggestion of collaboration for tackling the domestic or national threats.