Police officers with minimum 6-month tenure left should be considered for DGP post: Supreme Court

Due to this, brilliant police officers have been overlooked just because they do not have two years of services left. The UPSC says that it will not consider these officers," lawyer Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the former DGP, had said.The court had in July last year passed a slew of directions on police reforms and restrained all states and Union Territories from appointing any police officer as acting DGPs to avoid favouritism and nepotism in such high-level appointments.It had taken note of the Centre's submission that some states have adopted a practice to appoint DGPs on the last date of retirement, as a consequence of which the person continues for two years after his date of superannuation.Besides giving due weightage to "merit and seniority", it had directed the UPSC to consider those IPS officers "who have got clear two years of service" for appointment as DGPs. Dailyhunthttps://www.turnkeylinux.org/user/511139