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Odisha government has decided to constitute a Committee for transferring and posting police officers in the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Assistant Commandants, and Additional Superintendent of Police.
The move is now seen as divesting the Director General of Police (DGP) of critical supervisory powers.
As per the latest notification, the transfer and postings of police officers in the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Assistant Commandants, and Additional Superintendent of Police shall be made at the government level in the Home Department.
For this, a Transfer and Posting Committee has been constituted to decide on all the transfers and postings of all officers in the rank of DSP, Assistant Commandants, Additional Superintendent of Police, and Deputy Commandants.
As per the decision, the Additional Chief Secretary/ Principal Secretary, of the Home Department will be the chairman of the Committee which will also have DG/IG of Police as a member.
Special Secretary/Additional Secretary or joint secretary of the Home department (in-charge of the establishment) will also be a member of the Committee, the notification read.
Earlier, the power of transfer and posting of police officers in the rank of DSP, Assistant Commandants and Additional Superintendent of Police was delegated to the DGP and IG of Police as per the Home Department's Resolution in 2002.
The Transfer and Posting Committee shall also function as a forum of appeal for disposing of representation from officers in the rank of DSP and others regarding their transfer and posting, the notification issued on Wednesday read.
"It is a big and wrong decision. Taking into account law and order and crime senario in the country, curtailing the powers of DGP is not justified. What was the need to strip the DGP of such power by the newly formed government in the state. A Committee has been formed in this regard. Prior to 2002, government was doing the transfers and postings based on the recommendation the DGP. There is already a Board and I fail to understand the need for the new decision," said former Police DG Bipin Bihari Mishra.
