DGP says dept is firm in executing transfer orders; ensuring transferred personnel are relieved
PANAJI
In the last five years, not less than a dozen senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officers including former Director General of Police Jaspal Singh and Additional DGP Omvir Singh along with Superintendents of Police were transferred and assumed new postings. However, much of the Goa Police hierarchy has remained unchanged.
While SPs from the Goa Police Service are also being routinely shuffled within the department, subordinates right down to the constable rank – if not all -- continue to hold the same postings for years, allegedly defying government and internal orders mandating rotation.
Over the last five months, the department issued three reminders, including a final warning of salary cuts for those defying transfer orders. But, reliable sources confirmed, many personnel have blatantly ignored these directives.
In what sources describe as open defiance, several of the over 1,000 personnel transferred in the past year have completed paperwork claiming to have joined their new postings, and yet have continued to report to their old stations.
At a town police station, nearly half a dozen such personnel remain in place, allegedly citing instructions from senior officers who want them retained for specific investigations.
One such case involves two constables, transferred months ago, who were reportedly tasked with assisting the team in the Dona Paula robbery investigation. “Neither have they joined their new postings nor the robbery case is solved,” a senior officer lamented.
After The Goan’s report dated June 1, a constable who had been posted to two stations within a decade and is yet to be relieved was sent on Earned Leave only to return to the same station within two days. Three reminder letters in January, April and May are allegedly outrightly defied by several personnel.
Among more names surfacing is also a Deputy Superintendent of Police who allegedly is deputed at the same place for over five years, even while being the department's liaison with the government on transfers.
Director General of Police Alok Kumar has denied any laxity and insisted that the force has been firm in executing transfer orders. “We have ensured that those who are serving for three or five or even more years are being transferred and relieved. Maximum personnel have been relieved,” he told The Goan.
Kumar added that the department has ensured compliance with orders dating back to 2020 and prior. “We are going back to the years when policemen were not relieved and ensuring that orders are implemented within the stipulated time frame,” he said.
The department, in April, issued an order relieving all officers and personnel transferred between 2020 and 2025.
