Reshuffling: Seventeen new SHOs appointed
Inspectors and sub-inspectors given the job of running police stations.
KARACHI:
After a slew of transfers and appointments, 17 new SHOs or officers who run police stations went to work on Saturday amid reports that many more changes are expected in the coming days.
As this kind of bureaucratic movement is usually accompanied by allegations, Additional Inspector General Ghulam Shabbir Sheikh issued a notice saying that all of the men were posted on merit. The Sindh police spokesperson clarified that these men were actually being sent to police stations where there were no SHOs. He added that they were appointed after they passed a written examination and interviews.
“The fact that we have cleared the examination as well as the interview testifies to our suitability for the job,” said one of these officers, Inspector Kenson Dean. “We have gone through a very rigorous selection process to be posted and nobody can point fingers at us or make a fuss about our selection.” He has been made the SHO of Aziz Bhatti police station.
The decisions on transferring, posting and promoting officers is a sensitive point for police, especially in Karachi. Recently, the former Additional IG of Karachi, Saud Mirza, resigned after getting into a fight with the Sindh home minister, Manzoor Wasan, over exactly this matter. The locus of power involved in the appointment of officers is still quite nebulous - Wassan recently took power pertaining to such matters out of the hands of the former IG of police, Wajid Ali Durrani.
“It’s actually all about understanding, not power,” offered one official. “The current police chiefs and the home minister get along very well and are on the same wavelength, which is why I feel that there will be no more problems.”
About seven of the newly appointed SHOs are sub-inspectors though there are scores of inspectors in the city how could have been given precedence. This has been a sticking point especially as it was rumoured that Saud Mirza was planning to appoint inspectors as SHOs.
“The superiors actually perform the magic of transfers and postings and this magical power will be absorbed by their successors,” said an inspector waiting for his posting. The newly appointed SHOs include inspector Rao Ehsan to SHO Gulberg, inspector Jahanzaib to SHO Nazimabad, inspector Ashraf Gujjar to SHO New Karachi, inspector Mohammad Nadeem to SHO Sharifabad, inspector Suhail Akhtar Solari to SHO Gulistan-e-Jauhar and inspector Abdul Ghaffar Korai to SHO Clifton. The sub-inspectors include Amin Khan Marwat to SHO F.B. Industrial Area and Malik Muhammad Ayub to SHO North Nazimabad.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 13th, 2011.
After a slew of transfers and appointments, 17 new SHOs or officers who run police stations went to work on Saturday amid reports that many more changes are expected in the coming days.
As this kind of bureaucratic movement is usually accompanied by allegations, Additional Inspector General Ghulam Shabbir Sheikh issued a notice saying that all of the men were posted on merit. The Sindh police spokesperson clarified that these men were actually being sent to police stations where there were no SHOs. He added that they were appointed after they passed a written examination and interviews.
“The fact that we have cleared the examination as well as the interview testifies to our suitability for the job,” said one of these officers, Inspector Kenson Dean. “We have gone through a very rigorous selection process to be posted and nobody can point fingers at us or make a fuss about our selection.” He has been made the SHO of Aziz Bhatti police station.
The decisions on transferring, posting and promoting officers is a sensitive point for police, especially in Karachi. Recently, the former Additional IG of Karachi, Saud Mirza, resigned after getting into a fight with the Sindh home minister, Manzoor Wasan, over exactly this matter. The locus of power involved in the appointment of officers is still quite nebulous - Wassan recently took power pertaining to such matters out of the hands of the former IG of police, Wajid Ali Durrani.
“It’s actually all about understanding, not power,” offered one official. “The current police chiefs and the home minister get along very well and are on the same wavelength, which is why I feel that there will be no more problems.”
About seven of the newly appointed SHOs are sub-inspectors though there are scores of inspectors in the city how could have been given precedence. This has been a sticking point especially as it was rumoured that Saud Mirza was planning to appoint inspectors as SHOs.
“The superiors actually perform the magic of transfers and postings and this magical power will be absorbed by their successors,” said an inspector waiting for his posting. The newly appointed SHOs include inspector Rao Ehsan to SHO Gulberg, inspector Jahanzaib to SHO Nazimabad, inspector Ashraf Gujjar to SHO New Karachi, inspector Mohammad Nadeem to SHO Sharifabad, inspector Suhail Akhtar Solari to SHO Gulistan-e-Jauhar and inspector Abdul Ghaffar Korai to SHO Clifton. The sub-inspectors include Amin Khan Marwat to SHO F.B. Industrial Area and Malik Muhammad Ayub to SHO North Nazimabad.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 13th, 2011.