K-P Police. PHOTO: PPI
The decision was made by the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Minister Pervez Khattak in a meeting with officials of various departments at the Chief Minister House on Wednesday.
According to a statement issued by the CM House, the basic pay scale (BPS) of as many as 75,722 government employees was upgraded while the services of 4,743 government employees from different departments were regularised.
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With K-P on the frontline in the fight against terrorism and the police force, the first line of defence, constables, head constables (HC) and assistant sub-inspectors (ASIs) in the province were the biggest beneficiaries of the upgrade with 65,736 officials seeing their salaries increase.
Moreover, these cops would be allowed to keep their risk allowance, read a handout issued by the Central Police Office (CPO).
This includes 53,883 police constables who will be upgraded from BPS-5 to BPS-7, 9,095 head constables from BPS-7 to BPS-9 and 2,758 ASIs from BPS-9 to BPS-12
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervaiz Khattak had announced the move in March 2017, but it was put on hold several times due to objections from the Finance Department.
In 2016 too, upgradation summaries sent by the CPO had been rejected three times by the Chief Minister’s Secretariat. But this did not discourage the CPO who kept on resending the summary.
Talking to The Express Tribune, a high ranking police official said that constables and head constables make up a large part of the K-P police in addition to numerous ASIs who shared around 90 per cent of police’s fieldwork.
“The upgrade would increase their salary to some extent and it would benefit those who joined the force as constables and would probably retire as constables too,” the officer said.
“These are the people who man these check posts, pickets and do all other kinds of duties. A constable will work for at least 12 hours every day without inviting much attention and the same is the case with the head constables too,” he explained.
Other departments
Khattak also approved upgrades for 4,970 laboratory attendants of different departments across the province along with 23 assistant directors from BPS-17 to BPS-18.
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The government also approved upgrading of three economic investigator assistants from BPS-16 to BPS-17, three statisticians from BPS-16 to BPS-17, nine research officers from BPS-16 to BPS-17, and 24 district food controllers from BPS-16 to BPS-17.
As many as five excise and taxation deputy directors were upgraded from BPS-18 to BPS-19, 31 excise and taxation officers from BPS-17 to BPS-18, as many as 42 assistant excise and taxation officers from BPS-16 to BPS-17, 165 excise inspectors from BPS-15 to BPS-16, 26 sub-inspectors from BPS-10 to BPS-14 and 223 assistant sub-inspectors of the excise and taxation department from BPS-8 to BPS-11.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 28th, 2017.
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