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10/02/23 08:28 AM IST

State Police Chief Appointment

In News
  • The Nagaland government has appointed Rupin Sharma as Director General of the state police after SC’s direction.
  • Previously, Nagaland had challenged the Union Public Service Commission’s (UPSC) recommendation of Sharma as the only candidate for the post.
Appointment process
  • Appointments of DGPs are now made on the basis of the Supreme Court judgment on police reforms in Prakash Singh vs Union of India 17 years ago.
  • According to the SC’s guidelines on the appointment of police chiefs, the DGP is to be selected by the state government from among the three senior most officers who have been empanelled for promotion to that rank by the UPSC “on the basis of their length of service, very good record and range of experience for heading the police force”.
  • The empanelment committee selects the panel of three officers based on merit.
  • UPSC shall not put in the panel any officer with less than 6 months to retirement
  • DGP should have a fixed tenure of two years in the post, irrespective of retirement date
  • The list of eligible officers must have at least 30 years of service and be submitted to the UPSC six months before the incumbent DGP is to retire.
  • The 30-year rule may be relaxed to 25 years in certain states with the consent of the Centre
Empanelment Committee
  • An empanelment committee headed by the UPSC chairman, and with the union home secretary, state chief secretary, state DGP, and the chief of a central police organisation in it, is supposed to select a panel of three officers “based on merit”.
  • For smaller states that may have only one cadre post of DGP, the committee is supposed to send two names.
  • UPSC also submitted that while the 30-year rule could be relaxed to 25 years in states like Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Nagaland, Uttarakhand, Tripura, and Sikkim which may not have enough officers meeting this criterion, this is to be done with the consent of the Centre.
Issue
  • The process of appointment has faced challenges with at least four states having interim police chiefs and some cases of the Centre not following the Prakash Singh judgment.
Source- Indian Express

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