seniority list,” said the source.
The process has been going on for many years on the pretext of filling the posts that are vacant due to the shortage of the officers at the senior level.Many cops who were neither senior nor competent were promoted on acting basis in recent years for having backing from politicians or senior police officers.
Those who were obliged by senior police officers and politicians in the last many years by giving them shoulder promotion not only included DSPs and inspectors but hundreds of other cops down to the rank of constables.
In the last couple of years, the KP Police have posted 37 junior officers as SPs, ignoring over 100 of their seniors who have been waiting for promotion since long. These cops were promoted on the recommendations of the concerned RPOs or departmental heads.
“The seniority list of the DSPs issued in February shows those promoted as acting SPs are on 175, 134, 127, 107, 105, 99, 86, 83, 82, 78 on the roll. This was bound to demoralize those on number 6, 10, 13, 15, 18, 19, 22, 24, 27, 29, 32, 36, 39, 40, 42, 43, 43, 44 on the roll,” the source added.
Some senior police officers believe that majority of the DSPs and inspectors, who have not been promoted, were not competent enough.The ignored cops, however, argued that how come they reached the rank of DSP and inspectors if they were incompetent.
They added that many among those promoted as acting SPs and DSPs are the blue-eyed of the senior policemen, politicians or other influential people.Officers at the Central Police Office (CPO) said that the inspector general of police (IGP) has issued directives to promote only those DSPs as acting SPs who are among the top 100 on the seniority list.
“Similarly, instructions have been issued to promote from only those inspectors as acting DSPs who are among the top 150 on the seniority list,” said Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Headquarters, Mubarak Zeb.
The official argued that they were short of SPs and DSPs and that was the reason they had to appoint SPs and DSPs on the recommendation of the concerned regional police officer (RPO).The DIG Headquarters said that apart from seniority, they had to look for many other things to justify the fitness of the cops for the specific post.According to Mubarak Zeb, they were not getting enough number of officers in the senior grades from the federal government and this had resulted in the shortage.