MARGAO: Goa Public Service Commission (GPSC) has begun the process to fill up 62 posts of Deputy Superintendents of Police (DySPs) in Goa police of which 28 are by direct recruitment and 34 are by promotion.
“The proposal for direct recruitment has been sent to the GPSC after a gap of 25 years and in fact the last batch of directly recruited DySPs was in 1998,” said GPSC Chairman Jose Manuel Noronha.
The advertisement for direct recruitment to DySPs was released on Friday and there are 28 posts to be filled of which fourteen are unreserved, eight for OBC, four for ST and two for EWS.
“Unlike Junior scale officers in Goa civil service, the age limit for these posts is 30 years in the unreserved category while all candidates have to undergo and pass the physical fitness test as mandated in the
Goa police rules 2022. This recruitment will be through a five-stage process which will include pre-screening, screening, physicals tests (like running, high jump, long jump, shot put etc to be completed within set time limits), written exam and an oral interview,” Noronha added.
Furthermore, the GPSC under the chairmanship of Noronha convened a Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) meeting on Friday and has recommended for promotion of 29 Police Inspectors (PIs) as DySPs under the promotional quota. Incidentally, the government after concurrence of the commission had last month diverted ten posts of DySPs from the direct recruitment quota to the promotion quota and this deficit will be made up in future recruitments. The other members of the DPC being Chief Secretary, Director General of Police and Administrative Secretary. Once the direct recruitment process is complete, the Police department will have the full quota of DySPs on a regular basis perhaps for the first time.
In other DPCs held on Friday, the commission has recommended fourteen officials to be promoted to the position of Assistant Engineers in the Water Resource Department (WRD) while one official was recommended for the position of Deputy Director of Prosecution in the department of prosecution.