| Inspectors ignored, SIs made SHOs | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 30: Strange are the ways of Jammu district police. Ignoring at least half a dozen Inspectors, who were at present attached with the district police lines in view of no postings for them, the authorities concerned have posted three SIs as SHOs of as many police station.
All the three SIs were said to be 'well-connected' and 'powerful'. They were favourites of some ex-ministers and senior police officers, according to police sources.
"While one is holding a police station for a long time now, the other two have been transferred from one police station to the other as SHOs," sources said.
This was in violation of the police rule, which "says SIs would be posted as SHOs only when there is no Inspector available for the job", sources informed, saying in this case, three SIs were posted as SHOs notwithstanding the fact that at least six Inspectors were virtually without any jobs at the DPL.
Even as a senior police officer had in the recent past stated that no SI would be posted as SHO, the three 'powerful' SIs continued to head the police stations, sources said. |
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