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| State needs police chief who can growl and howl | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 25: Though police circles christen it as local versus non-local issue in the race for the post of DG police there is nothing like local in the tussle. Atleast for the next 20 years no local, meaning a police officer belonging to Jammu and Kashmir State, has any chance to occupy the post of Director General Police.
Hence the tussle for the top post has boiled down to the IPS officers belonging to the J&K cadre and the one belonging to the non-state cadre.
The Union Home Ministry has recommended a 3-member panel of senior IPS officers to the State Government for selection to the DG post. These officers are Arun Choudhary (1977 batch, Bihar cadre) Special Director General Central Industrial Security Force, Ashok Prasad (1979 batch) Additional Director IB and P.M. Nair (1978 batch) Special Director General (operations) CRPF.
Top police sources in Srinagar said that "there is nothing extraordinary in the service record of these three officers." They said as far as the operational experience is concerned these three officers stand nowhere when compared to the field experience of K. Rajendra Kumar, Additional Director General Police.
In fact the trend for requisitioning officers to head the police in Jammu and Kashmir State started from 1913 when one Imperial Police officer, Broadway, was appointed as Inspector General police on deputation. And between 1913 and 1947 the State had 11 police heads from outside Jammu and Kashmir. Even after the independence the practice of appointing non-local officers as police heads continued for sometime till Peer Ghulam Hassan Shah, a Kashmiri and a promote IPS officer was installed as the first DGP in the State.
After the retirement of Shah, the Government experimented with non-local officers from 1986. F.T.R. Colaso headed the police in 1986-87. He was not a story of distinguished service and so was the case with two other non-local officers, J.N. Saxena (1989-92), when militancy took firm roots in Jammu and Kashmir and B.S. Bedi (1992-93), when the level of demoralisation and disorientation in the police increased.
It was only Gurbachan Jagat (1997-2000), a Punjab cadre IPS officer, who was instrumental in galvanising the police. It was during his tenure that the police force witnessed material change in its strength, in its weapon modernisation and improvement in communication and transport system.
If from D.N. Kaul onwards upto Ashok Bhan and Kuldeep Khoda the police has registered marked growth by way of assuming sharper teeth why cannot this practice continue under those who have been posted in the State for over a decade or so.
Since there is nothing remarkable about the service record of three officers recommended by the Union Home Ministry for the post of DGP the tie is between K. Rajendra Kumar and P.L. Gupta. Gupta has one advantage of being a citizen of Jammu and Kashmir. His another quality is that he is honest and highly religious. His another quality is that he is neither a schemer nor believes in psychophancy.
Against this K. Rajendra has more field experience than Gupta. The former can, like Jagat, instil confidence in the police. Since the Government plans to further modernise the police so that it is able to replace the CRPF the state needs a police chief who can growl and howl required to keep the police officials on toes.
Those who keep on voting for a local officer to head the police should realise that selecting a police chief is unlike selecting an university vice-chancellor. |
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