After a gap of two years, the Punjab Government has announced that it would conduct a Junior Command Course for the promotion of Provincial Police Officers across the country from Grade 17 to Grade.
In this regard, 50 Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSPs) from Punjab Police, Motorway Police, Railway Police, and Gilgit-Baltistan have been nominated for the course.
For the 40-seat quota reserved on for the Punjab Police, 20 police officers have been nominated from the executive cadre, 10 from the legal cadre, and 10 DSPs from the traffic police. Four seats each for Motorway Police and Gilgit-Baltistan Police have been reserved, while the names of DSPs have been announced for two seats reserved for Railway Police. Traffic Police Officers in Punjab have been nominated for Junior Command Course after nine years. The ninth Junior Command Course will start from September 21, 2020, at the Police Training College Sihala, Rawalpindi. The duration of the Junior Command Course will be four months.
After the approval of the Inspector General Punjab Police Inam Ghani, the names of police officers have been approved for the 40 seats reserved for the Punjab Police, out of which 20 seats are of the executive cadre.
According to police sources, the Punjab government will bear the cost of the Junior Command Course, which will be conducted at the Police Training College Sihala for Punjab police officers. Meanwhile, the 50 per cent cost of the course designed for the National Highway and Motorway Police, Railway Police and Gilgit-Baltistan Police officers will be borne by the Punjab Government and the remaining 50 per cent will be covered by the officers’ respective institutions. Upon the completion of the course, the officers will be promoted to the rank of Superintendent of Police (SP).
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Speaking to The Express Tribune, Inspector General Punjab Police Inam Ghani said that due to some administrative issues, the coronavirus lockdown, and the quota system, the course had to be delayed.
“From next year, the Junior Command Course will be held every year so that the promotions of police officers can be streamlined,” he said.
He added that after a lapse of years nine years, traffic cadre officers have been included in the 9th Junior Command Course. The first Junior Command Course was held in 2011 in which several traffic cadre officers were included. Since then, more than 30 posts of SP Traffic Police have been lying vacant due to the retirement or non-participation of officers in the course for nine consecutive years. Police sources said that twenty-seven SPs of Traffic Cadre Punjab were merged from Provincial Police Service (PPP) to Police Service of Pakistan (PSP) in 2014. The posts of Punjab police DSP Traffic could not be promoted to SP Traffice due to which the posts of SP Traffic is still vacant.
As a result, traffic cadre police officers have to face uncertainty and displeasure. Officers of the Police Training Branch maintain that traffic cadre officers are sent to the course only after the approval of the police authorities.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 18th, 2020.
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