3 years on, no officer from State Police inducted into Indian Police Service - Kashmir

Srinagar, Aug 4: With induction of State Police Service (SPS) officers into the Indian Police Services (IPS) remaining suspended for the past three years, the number of vacancies in the promotion quota of the service has gone up to 21.  In January 2016, the number of vacancies would rise to 43 as 22 more officers are retiring in 2013, 2014 and 2015.
Authoritative sources told Greater Kashmir that authorized cadre strength of IPS for Jammu and Kashmir is around 147.
While 80 posts are meant for direct recruits, the remaining 67 posts are to be filled by induction from SPS.
“At present, there are 65 direct recruit officers in IPS leaving 15 vacancies in the category. And there is a dearth of 21 SPS officers as only 46 officers are in position in the quota,” they said.
But during next three months, the percentage of SPS officers would further come down as seven more officers would end their innings by then. On August 31, Sheikh Mehmood (SSP- Police Control Room) and Raghubir Singh (SSP Reasi) would retire.
Next month, three officers- Rouf-ul- Hassan (IGP Armed / IRP Kashmir), Farooq Khan (Director Sheri- Kashmir Police Academy Udhampur) , Abdul Hamid( DIG –IRP Kashmir)- would attain superannuation. In November, Israr Ahmad Khan (SSP Samba) and Manmohan Singh (SSP Traffic City Jammu) would retire.
In 2014 and 2015, seven and eight inducted local officers would retire. That implies, 43 vacancies in the quota by 2015 ending.
Officials told Greater Kashmir that delay in induction hampers the promotional prospects of local officers particularly Kashmir Police Service (KPS) officers.
Going by the date of birth of in- service  inducted officers and year of their IPS allotment, there would be minuscule presence of local officers at top positions between 2022- 2025.
No SPS officer would be at hierarchy –ADGP and IGP-   after Muhammad Sulaiman Salaria (Commissioner Civil Military Liaison Home Department) and Afaadul Mujataba(Deputy Inspector General of Police,   Central Kashmir Range)  would  respectively retire in 2020 and 2021.
According to officials, the last induction took place in 2010. Then 12 officers were inducted into the service.
Ghulam Hassan Bhat ,Kifayat Haider,Mansoor Ahmad Untoo, Mansoor Ahmad Sheikh,  Prabhat Singh ,Raghubir Singh, Rattan Chand Mannotra ,Deepak Kumar Slathia , Amjad Parvez Mirza,Rafeeq- ul- Hassan,Virender Sharma and Vijay Kumar were  appointed to the IPS through Ministry of Home  notifications  nos. I- 14011/6/2010-IPS-I dated 18/03/2011 and I-14013/25/2011-IPS-I dated 05/09/2011.
In 2011, according to officials, the State Home Department submitted a proposal for induction against the nine vacancies of 2010 to the Union Public Service Commission but that got stuck due to queries raised by the latter.
“The proposal was returned by the Union Public Service Commission with some observations which too were replied by the Home Department,” they said.
Since then no induction has been effected.
On Monday, the State Home Department informed a panel of the Upper House that they have started exercise for revising “promotions at DySPs level and SPs level which will be followed by notification of seniority list of Deputy Superintendents of Police and Superintendents of Police.
“After notification of the seniority list of SPs, a proposal of State Police Service officers shall be submitted to the UPSC for convening selection committee meeting,” the Home Department submitted.
When contacted Principal Secretary Home, Suresh Kumar said, they couldn’t cause induction due to non- fixation of the seniority list. “Besides there is also litigation over seniority list,” he said.

Source: http://tinyurl.com/khs9h58