As the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh heads for assembly election in 2022, the Yogi Adityanath led government has initiated a process wherein those police personnel who are 50 years old by March this year, will be subjected to screening and those found ‘incompetent, indisciplined and corrupt’ will be given compulsory retirement.
These orders were issued by the Additional Director General (ADG), Establishment, Sanjay Singhal and as per the order, all police departmental heads and district police chiefs should complete the process of screening police personnel from the rank of constable to inspector based on their ‘performance’ or ‘non-performance’.
The state government made it very clear that this policy was initiated two years ago to weed out incompetent, indisciplined, and corrupt police personnel.
ADG (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar said, “This screening should not be considered that the employees will be given retirement forcibly, but it has been done as per their utility in the service,”.
In 2019, 364 police personnel from the rank of inspector to class four employees were given compulsory retirement across the state and it included 11 inspectors, 57 sub-inspectors, eight sub-inspectors (ministerial), 80 head constables and 200 constables and class four employees.
This was not just limited to the state police in UP, some Provincial Police Service (PPS) and Indian Police Service (IPS) officers were also given compulsory retirement since 2019.
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