The Punjab government has decided to repatriate the services of all such police officials who have somehow managed to stay in the provincial police bureaucracy for over a decade.
Sources have told The Express Tribune that Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar has sought a report from the Punjab Inspector General (IG) with names of all such police officials who have been serving in basic pay scale (BPS) grade 18 to 20 in the province, the posts and cities they have served over the past decade.
Sources said that as part of a merit-based policy, the chief minister is actively seeking to dislodge those who have been bypassing it.
Hence, he was informed that several officials in the Punjab police have remained at the top, influential positions in the police department for years.
Such was their influence that whenever any progress was to be made to transfer them to other provinces or for returning their services to the federal government, the process would be halted on different pretexts.
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The most common excuse given against their transfer was that they are engaged in an important task and that they should not be transferred until it is complete. However, those tasks either never commence or are the ones started, ever completed, allowing officials to remain at certain posts nearly permanently.
Sources told The Express Tribune that a list of all such officials is expected to be completed soon.
Thereafter, the services of many of these police officials will be either returned to the federal government or other provinces and police officials with a reputation of completing tasks will be deputed in their stead.
Key decisions in this regard are expected in the coming days.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 24th, 2020.
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