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Centre to add Puducherry police to UT force
Why is it in news?
- The Union Home Ministry will soon initiate the process to include the Puducherry police into an amalgamated force.
- It will include senior ranks from Chandigarh and five other Union Territories including Delhi, according to a senior government official.
- The move to include Puducherry in the force comes after the Centre last month notified the National Capital Territory of Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Chandigarh (Police Service) Rules, 2018.
Why this decision?
- While Chandigarh is a Union Territory, it is also the common capital of Punjab and Haryana States.
- Accordingly, until the latest notification, 60% police officers posted there were from Punjab and 40% were from Haryana.
- There are about 533 posts in the six UTs (excluding Puducherry) that will be covered under the new rules that includes the posts of assistant commissioners of police and deputy superintendents of police.
- These postings, which were till now decided by the respective UT administrators, will hereafter be at the disposal of the Centre.
- A senior government official said the decision to merge the police forces was based on a 2012 report of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) detailing the “corruption and extortion nexus” of policemen posted in Chandigarh.
- This was to break the nexus of policemen posted for years in the same post.This encouraged corruption….the move also means that there will be better promotional opportunities. This decision was taken on the basis of an IB report.”
Source
The Hindu