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Early Times Report
Jammu, June 18: The Punjab Government is reported to have cleared the decks for appointment of Jammu and Kashmir cadre IPS officer PS Gill as next Director General of Punjab Police. Currently Commissioner of State Vigilance Organisation, Gill may take over as Punjab DGP by July 1.
The Punjab Cabinet today approved an ordinance to amend the State Police Act, apparently to pave the way for appointment of Jammu and Kashmir cadre IPS officer P S Gill as the State’s new Director General of Police.
The amendment to Section 6(1) of the Punjab Police Act, 2007 will allow even officers from outside the Punjab cadre to be appointed as Director General of Police in the State.
The tenure of current DGP K K Attri is set to end on June 30 and official sources said Gill, who is presently posted in Jammu and Kashmir, is the favourite to succeed him.
The amendment had been made to have a wider choice and a larger pool from which the incumbent for the post of DGP could be selected, an official spokesman said in Chandigarh. Sources in Jammu and Kashmir, however, said that amendment was carried essentially to pave way for appointment of Gill as next DGP.
It is learnt that the move of Gill’s appointment as Director General of Punjab Police has been pushed by the National Conference president and Union Energy Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah. Gill is one such Police officer in Jammu and Kashmir whose name finds a special position in the good books of the National Conference leadership and friendship of the Abdullahs with Badals (Punjab CM Prakash Singh and his son Sukhbeer) is a well known fact.
Despite being among the senior most officers, for last many years, Gill could never get a proper posting in the Police organisation. He has almost been out of the Police eversince the ouster of the National Conference government in 2002. Until earlier this year, Gill was Director General of Sports and Youth Affairs in Jammu and Kashmir and earlier he was Transport Commissioner.
Soon after return to power earlier this, the National Conference government brought Gill back to Police fold and posted him as Commissioner of the State Vigilance. The post had fallen vacant after deputation of incumbent Radhavinod Raju to the National Intelligence Agency.
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