Too much securirty for Politicians and VIPs

It was recently reported in the "Times of India" and the "Indian express" that out of the 60,000 police personnel in Delhi about 10,000 were in charge of looking after designated VIP's and their security. The number of VIP's designated by Delhi are 400, which seems to be an unbelievably high figure. These 400 people are excluding the prime minister and all the other important ministers. If the above information is correct, we need to ask ourselves why 1/6th of the police force of a certain town is in charge of looking after 0.0000286(I have actually calculated that, given that Delhi's population is close to 14000000 source: wikipidea) of the population. Agreed that these 400 people are important for the nation and they are playing an important role in maintaining political stability (God knows whether they really are???) but still that does not justify these figures. If we calculate per person security then 10000/400=25.

Do we live in Pakistan, Afghanistan or Taliban that every time a VIP leaves his home he needs 25 people to surround him, and this is just the security, Im not including the attendants and private attendants and god knows how many more. This kind of supreme royal treatment given to VIP's is not only absurd but it also is a waste of the tax payer’s money. The role of the police force according to Police Act 1861 is "the prevention and detection of crime, prevention as an objective precedes detection" Now this is with reference to the entire nation, or an entire state and all the people of that land, it is not with reference to a few VIPs and MP's. Perhaps its time to rethink on these issues and formulate a realistic and fair policy with regards to VIPs security and let us not forget that in a democracy the most important person is the common man, the ordinary people who vote and who's welfare has to be ensured by any government, hence the common man is the real VERY IMPORTANT PERSON (VIP!!)