Over 160 Delhi police inspectors are likely to be promoted to the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) soon, sources in the Delhi government and the Delhi police said on Wednesday.
A total of 163 inspectors have been recommended for regular promotion to ACP rank, though many of them had already been given duties of an ACP rank officer, sources said.
At a meeting of the Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) on Tuesday, a decision was taken to promote the 163 inspectors, some of whom had fought cases in the Central Administrative Tribunal and were nearing retirement, an official in the Delhi government’s Home Department said.
This was the first such DPC meeting in about two years and the number of police personnel recommended for promotion had been an unusually large one, sources in the government and the police said. The Union Home Ministry had taken the decision in order to end stagnation, the government official said.
The order promoting the inspectors will be issued soon, the official added.
“There were many cases of backlog due to various reasons. The list includes inspectors who are about to retire and cases of pending promotion that were challenged in court. The figure is high because there were many inspectors who qualified for the seniority list,” said a Delhi police officer.
After the promotions, the Delhi police will have about 300 ACPs, said the officer.
