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Police chief cracks whip on postings' issue

By Prashant Pandey

NEW DELHI JAN. 31. Delhi's Police Commissioner, Radhey Shyam Gupta, has asked the top brass of the establishment wing to be strict with personnel who are reluctant to be posted in the far corners of the Capital and want to be "near home''.

While no written orders have been issued, police sources say Mr. Gupta has verbally instructed the department concerned with postings to firmly deal with those who want "soft postings'' in terms of distance from their residence. The Commissioner has told them that Delhi should be treated as one city and no leniency be allowed on this count.

Of late, it had came to light that personnel who are transferred to units like the Indira Gandhi International Airport, Security, Police Training College and battalions headquartered in distant places are increasingly placing a request for reconsideration of their postings.

However, in many cases even those living in central areas of Delhi showed reluctance in being posted to trans-Yamuna areas. In one case, a personnel living in Civil Lines was reluctant to take up a posting in a police station in North-East Delhi. "It is hardly a 10-minute ride on his scooter via the ISBT flyover, but even then he did not want to go there,'' said a police officer.

This tendency to shy away from "difficult'' postings was posing further problems for the Delhi police administration, who already face the onerous task of accommodating police personnel in the available pool of houses. Only a little more than 15 per cent of police personnel and officers have got accommodation for now.

In fact, the administration had recently managed to computerise records of the quarters available with the Delhi police in about 15 colonies. The exercise to computerise the records -- which deal with occupancy, waiting list and pendency -- took about a year. "Since we did not have the field staff, our own managerial staff went to all the 11,000-odd quarters and physically verified their status in a span of about three months,'' a police officer said. This has also helped in establishing the seniority list related to entitlement of accommodation.

In a departure from practice, the administration would now ask for the first three preferences of colonies and not districts from those seeking accommodation. Earlier, the personnel were asked to give preferences for three districts. This had led to an imbalance in accommodation with officers who have put in more than 30 years of service still looking for accommodation in posh districts like South and South-West. However, in colonies like Narela in North-West Delhi the flats are lying vacant.

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