Union Home Minister Mr. P Chidambaram has stressed the need for capacity building and providing adequate funds to the police force to tackle crime rates in the country. He was inaugurating the Global Community Policing Conclave organised by the Kerala Police in Kochi today. Noting that four lakh police posts are lying vacant in the country, Mr. Chidambaram said deficiencies within the police force should be addressed first before taking up community policing. He said community policing is an exercise in trust between equal partners and added that the fear and antagonism in the minds of the public for the police should be replaced with respect and fear of law. He said efforts to counter threats to national security by using Salwa Judum in Chattisgarh and Harmad Bahini in West Bengal are bad examples of community policing. He noted that it amounted to police abdicating its responsibility. Mr. Chidambaram said police should recognise the role of non-elected representatives of the people and cautioned about self-appointed leaders who work their system to their personal advantage. Expulsion of Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan revoked The Expulsion of Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan has been revoked. Mr. Khan was expelled from party for six years before the last Lok Sabha election due to tussle with other party leaders. Samajwadi party State spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary told AIR Allahabad correspondent that Party National President Mulayam Singh Yadav had decided to withdraw Mr. Khan's expulsion with immediate effect. Mr. Chaudhary said that Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav wrote a letter to Azam Khan and urged him to work for party as he did earlier. Rajendra Chowdhary further said that, Mr. Yadav expressed hope that his association with samjawadi party would make the organisation stronger in the state.