PANJIM: Around a dozen senior police inspectors have petitioned Chief Secretary and Director General of Police demanding filling up of long pending posts of deputy superintendents of police by promotion.
The aggrieved serving officers have insisted that Promotion Quota for PI to DySP be changed to 100 percent by promotion and no direct recruitment be made for filling the posts.
While the government and the department are yet to react to the petition “demanding justice,” the petitioner PIs have asked the authorities concerned to suitably modify recruitment rules so as to enable the Police Establishment Board to have its full play for the promotions from PIs to DySP by promotion.
Herald has learnt that each petition of around 40 pages alleges that The Goa Police Service Rules, 2011 are arbitrary and irrational as the promotional avenues of the Departmental PIs are adversely affected considering that promotion from police sub inspector (PSI) to PIs is by way of 100 percent by promotion.
“The amendment of 50 per cent by direct recruitment has blocked the promotional avenues of the directly recruited PSIs and PIs and some of the PIs are not promoted to the post of Dy SP even after completing 18 years of service as PI. With the present amendment the chances of promotion of directly recruited PSIs to the post of Police Inspectors and DySP is very bleak and some of the PIs will have to retire after putting 35 years of service,” said a source quoting the aggrieved PIs.
“In continuation of the Goa Police Service Rules 1997, that is, 80 per cent by promotion and 20 per cent by direct recruitment, it was the responsibility of Goa Police Department to move the Government to further amend Goa Police Rule 1997 to fill up the posts of Dy SP by promotion. However the department has not moved this proposal in time,” he further alleged.
The PIs also pointed out that in the recent past there was huge direct recruitment of PSIs and if the present trend continues, the newly recruited PSIs will have no option other than to retire on the same post on which they are joined. This will also have adverse effect on the lower ranks as. At present there is resentment in all corners of Goa Police on the present stagnation issue.