The state government has brought in an ordinance to decentralise the power to transfer and determine the postings of police personnel.
The state government has brought in an ordinance to decentralise the power to transfer and determine the postings of police personnel.
The ordinance, which was brought in to amend the Maharashtra Police Act, was promulgated on February 16 and tabled in the legislative council on Tuesday.
The ordinance says that police establishment boards would be constituted at the district level to look after the transfer and posting of all cops up to the level of police inspector.
The ordinance also fixes the normal tenure of the cops. DSPs and ACPs would have a tenure of two years, and constables would have five, the rule says. PSIs would have a tenure of two years in a police station, four years in a district, and eight years in a range. For cops posted at crime branches and special branches at commissionerates, the normal tenure would be of three years.
Officers of the rank of PSI would spend eight years at the Mumbai commissionerate and six years in other commissionerates, and for specialised agencies the tenure would be of three years.
The chief minister would henceforth have powers to transfer only IPS officers and the home ministry would be the competent authority for doing so for Maharashtra police service officers.
In case of serious complaints and law and order problems, the highest competent authority can transfer any cop by bypassing the police establishment board, says the ordinance.
"Earlier too, transfer procedures were the same. The ordinance will bring smiles on the faces of those officers posted in non-executive branches. The reason is that even after completion of their tenure, they used to continue at non-executive postings due to delay in transfers. That delay will not occur any more once the ordinance is passed," said a police inspector from Mumbai.
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