BHUBANESWAR: The Election Commission of India's (ECI) instruction to transfer officials posted in their house districts and those that have spent 3 years in a district seems to have little effect at the commissionerate of police.
On Thursday, the commissionerate of police swapped many officers between Bhubaneswar and Cuttack aside from two assistant commissioners of police (ACPs), who were transferred within Bhubaneswar even though they have got been posted in the town for more than 3 years.
The two ACPs, Asim Kumar Panda and Rabinarayan Satpathy, serving as ACPs of zone-1 and zone-VI respectively, have been accommodated in the police commissionerate headquarters throughout the town limits, triggering speculation about their affect in the energy corridors. Among the officers transferred on Thursday were inspectors-in-charge (IICs) of 16 key police stations in Bhubaneswar and 10 in Cuttack.
Panda, who joined as an inspector in Bhubaneswar all the way through the formation of the police commissionerate in 2008, has since now not been transferred out of the capital town. In the run-up to 2014 elections, Panda was once shifted to the commissionerate headquarters from a police station throughout the town and was once later (after end of polls) appointed in every other police station right here.
Satpathy, who too joined the commissionerate police in 2008, was once transferred to Cuttack only some weeks before the 2014 polls. A few weeks after the polls, Satpathy was once brought again to Bhubaneswar.
While the two ACPs were unavailable for comments, commissioner of police Satyajit Mohanty, who could also be chairman of police establishment board (PEB), said the duo is probably not engaged in ballot duties.
Mohanty said Panda and Satpathy are two experienced officers, whose presence is required in Bhubaneswar to care for crisis scenarios and non-poll related legislation and order problems. "The PEB that effects the transfer was of the view that some old and proven hands may continue in Bhubaneswar in office posts (not related to poll) as more than 75% of field officers have been shifted," he said. The PEB has four different participants, together with further commissioner of police, deputy commissioners of police (Bhubaneswar and Cuttack) and deputy commissioner of police (headquarters).
On Thursday, the commissionerate of police swapped many officers between Bhubaneswar and Cuttack aside from two assistant commissioners of police (ACPs), who were transferred within Bhubaneswar even though they have got been posted in the town for more than 3 years.
The two ACPs, Asim Kumar Panda and Rabinarayan Satpathy, serving as ACPs of zone-1 and zone-VI respectively, have been accommodated in the police commissionerate headquarters throughout the town limits, triggering speculation about their affect in the energy corridors. Among the officers transferred on Thursday were inspectors-in-charge (IICs) of 16 key police stations in Bhubaneswar and 10 in Cuttack.
Panda, who joined as an inspector in Bhubaneswar all the way through the formation of the police commissionerate in 2008, has since now not been transferred out of the capital town. In the run-up to 2014 elections, Panda was once shifted to the commissionerate headquarters from a police station throughout the town and was once later (after end of polls) appointed in every other police station right here.
Satpathy, who too joined the commissionerate police in 2008, was once transferred to Cuttack only some weeks before the 2014 polls. A few weeks after the polls, Satpathy was once brought again to Bhubaneswar.
While the two ACPs were unavailable for comments, commissioner of police Satyajit Mohanty, who could also be chairman of police establishment board (PEB), said the duo is probably not engaged in ballot duties.
Mohanty said Panda and Satpathy are two experienced officers, whose presence is required in Bhubaneswar to care for crisis scenarios and non-poll related legislation and order problems. "The PEB that effects the transfer was of the view that some old and proven hands may continue in Bhubaneswar in office posts (not related to poll) as more than 75% of field officers have been shifted," he said. The PEB has four different participants, together with further commissioner of police, deputy commissioners of police (Bhubaneswar and Cuttack) and deputy commissioner of police (headquarters).
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