APIs awaiting promotions for last nine months
   Date :01-Dec-2020

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By Dheeraj Fartode :
 
MORE than 500 Assistant Police Inspector (API) rank officials of Maharashtra Police are awaiting promotion to the rank of Police Inspector for last nine months. The delay in promotion orders has caused lot of anxiety among the young officials.
 
Source informed that around 550 officers of 100 and 101 batches were promoted as API after completing their training and tenure as PSI. They are working as API for last seven years. Establishment Board of State police had collected information of 1,086 APIs in March this year. Of them, 543 officers were expected to get promoted as Police Inspectors. However, the officers are awaiting their promotion orders for last nine months. A police officer said that the delay in promotion is causing lot of anxiety among the officers. In recent general transfers, many APIs were transferred to another police units. These officers will be again transferred to other units with new promotion orders as Police Inspectors.
 
“It means, an officer will be transferred two times in a year. Such complicated transfer process will not only tax the cops financially but mentally too,” he lamented. If the promotions were done before the general transfers, it would have been beneficial for the force and the officers, he added. Another officer, on request of anonymity, said that the government had put work modification during the COVID-19 pandemic and police personnel above 50 years of age were asked to do only official work at police stations. As the force has more than 70 per cent police inspector above 50 years of age, they were not able to go in field. As a result, the force is facing crunch of police inspectors in the field. The APIs who are awaiting promotion are between the age group of 35 and 40 years and their promotion as police inspectors would give young leaders to the force.
 
APIs promotion only after PIs move up: ADG Sarangal ADDITIONAL Director General of Police, Establishment, Kulwant Sarangal informed ‘The Hitavada’ that promotions of PIs and APIs are due. “The promotions of APIs will be done only after promotions of police inspectors to the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP/ACP). The Police Inspector to DySP promotions will create vacancies. These posts of Police Inspectors will be filled by promoting APIs,” ADG Sarangal said. “Promotion orders of Police Inspector to DySP would be released in December,” he informed.