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| TOP COPS ALL SET FOR PROMOTIONS | | | Jammu, August 3 -Seven SSPs are being elevated to the post of DIGs in Jammu and Kashmir soon after the Independence day celebrations are over.
Informed sources said that the Director General Police, Mr Gopal Sharma,who has already been empanelled will continue to head the police organization in the state.The sources said that at one stage Mr Sharma had wanted to seek a posting as Directror General police outside the state but the state Government, especially the Chief Minister, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad,and the Transport Minister, Mr Mangat Ram Sharma, continue to support Mr Gopal Sharma.
When Mr Azad took over as Chief Minister he had toyed with the idea of bringing some senior IPS officer to head the police in Jammu and Kashmir. But he could not succeed in his mission because suitable people were not interested in shouldering the responsibility of heading the police in a state tormented by militancy related violence. And both Mr Azad and his cabinet colleagues,besides the Governor,Mr S.K.Sinha,are said to have found in Mr Gopal Sharma a non controversial officer.
Mr Sharma is said to have favoured elevation of seven SSPs to the rank of DIGs so that senior officers were deployed in the field for supervising anti insurgency operations.
Another relief the Government has decided to give relates to 59 officers of the rank of DSPs who had been elevated to the rank of SPs in August 2004.Except for two officers the remaining 57 continued to be in their old posts which had created an embarrassing situation for them.
Since one of the officers, Mr Manjit Singh,was killed in a militant attack the Government has decided to post the remaining 56 officers as SPs in different areas.
After the elevation of seven SSPs to the rank of DIGs the state will have 15 DIGs. The elevation had become necessary because the Government has favoured immediate raising of two additional battalions of the police in the state. In this connection the recruitment boards were being constituted and it is learnt that the recruitment would be completed within next six months. As soon as these battalions are added to the police force they too need senior officers of the rank of DIGs. |
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