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Police posting rules come out of RTI hat
There long existed detailed guidelines in Chandigarh to spare police postings from the whims and ulterior motives of officers of administration and police.
But as the case with so many good intentions in government, the policy remained buried in files and, in fact, few knew that they existed.
A citizen's queries under the Right to Information Act has brought in open the guidelines formulated in a meeting between then adviser Jagdish Sagar, home secretary Anuradha Gupta and IG RP Singh way back in '98.
The UT Police in its answers to Sector 15 resident SP Chhatwal said the policy termed "sensitive" the posts of divisional DSPs, three in total, and traffic DSP and made "cooling off period" at a non-sensitive post for two years compulsory after a DSP has served in sensitive posts.
It also said the normal tenure of a DSP on a post would be of two years and he could be transferred earlier only on the "ground of unsatisfactory performance". A DSP's tenure should not exceed three years, it added.
Interestingly, this flies in the face of almost uninterrupted tenure for years as divisional DSPs by SS Randhawa, heading the central division, and previously SC Sagar and SC Abrol, both retired now.
In fact, the home department of late has shown an inexplicable inclination to award a particular DSP, promoted last year by superseding two inspectors, with a plum post by going out of its way.
However, it is the policy regarding postings and transfers of SHOs, most important assignments for inspectors apart from that of Crime Branch in-charge, which have apparently been consigned to dustbin by the police.
Where the tenure is concerned the policy remains same as regarding the DSP, and have been violated too many times to even count.
The policy further says an inspector on his first promotion should be posted in a non-sensitive unit (posting in police stations, traffic, Crime Branch and economic offence wing is termed sensitive) for two years.
It makes two years cooling off period mandatory after an inspector has served at an non-sensitive post. All SHOs have been presently posted in violation of this policy.
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