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| As police adm is unresponsive to reforms, many retd officers continue to have "illegal" possession of official vehicles | | | BHARAT BHUSHAN
JAMMU, Sept 23: Those at the helm of affairs in the J&K police administration seem to have become unresponsive to any "reforms", or change the "mughlia" culture prevalent among many of its retired officers.
When ET carried a report in July last on the misuse of official cars and Gypsies by many of the retired police officers, a few called up the newspaper office, and said they would be returning the vehicles they had unofficially retained with them. Some others said they were entitled to keep a vehicle each.
Now they say since the police headquarters did not send them any notice in this regard, they, on their own, will not be returning the official vehicles which are in their unofficial custody.
According to sources in state police, some retired J&K DGPs, ADGPs, IGPs, DIGs and SSPs continue to have the unauthorised possession of official ambassadors and other luxury cars.
They were also allegedly getting petrol from police control room (PCR), putting an extra burden on the state exchequer, the sources added.
Sources said rules and regulations did not permit them to retain official cars after retirement but they had been doing so to flaunt their ostentatious attitude and show-off to earn clout.
While, after the ET report in July, PHQ was stated to have decided to take back these vehicles from some of its retired personnel, the move was later dropped for the reasons unknown, the sources added.
Sources said some serving and retired SSPs and other middle and higher rung officers had four-plus official vehicles (all AC) with them.
While one AC car was solely kept by them to take their pets to clinics of veterinary doctors for their regular check-up, others were being used to carry their wives, children and grandchildren, the sources added.
Sources said official cars could be seen dropping and picking up the children of these officers and some bureaucrats outside Convent School at Gandhi Nagar and Delhi Public School (Jammu branch) near Shaheedi Chowk.
So "influential" were these people that many of them had been getting "official" petrol unauthorisedly from PCR for their personal use, sources alleged.
"A non-state subject DGP, who is putting up in a rented house somewhere at Rehari here and who retired over a decade, or so back, still uses an official car," the sources added.
Another retired DGP does not have an official vehicle but he uses beacon light atop his private car.
Three to four retired ADGPs too have official cars with them. An IGP, who also served as a PSC member after his retirement, too has an official car in his garage.
Sources said to ensure that this tradition was not carried forward, PHQ ought to make clear who was entitled to retain an official car after retirement, and who was not.
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