PSP officers shying away from postings in KP
PESHAWAR: The elite Police Service of Pakistan (PSP) is occupying less than 17 percent offices of the district police officers (DPOs) in the troubled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The rest of the positions are occupied by the provincial civil service (PCS) officers or rankers.
There was a time when the PSPs were dominant occupying almost all the important offices of DPOs reaching more than 90 percent and only a few PCS officers could manage to get any top police positions. Rankers could hardly get any senior positions.
However, since the law and order situation has taken an ugly turn, most of the PSPs have preferred to get postings outside Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “At present, the PSP officers have been posted to head the district police force only in Peshawar, Abbottabad, Haripur and Kohat. The rest of the 20 DPOs are from the PCS or are rankers,” a source said.
The media directorate of the Central Police Office was asked to provide a complete list of the officers from PSP, PCS and rankers but none of the officers bothered to do so. However, sources disclosed that the ratio of rankers is the highest among the DPOs most of whom were in fact junior officers but were given shoulder promotion to post them in the troubled districts against the senior positions. “These posts had to be filled. As there is already lack of PSPs, the authorities had to appoint rankers and PCS officers against relatively senior positions,” said an official while requesting anonymity.
A senior PSP officer said that one of the reasons the province lacks PSPs is the mandatory service in Frontier Constabulary. He also said that several PSPs have recently been posted in the province from other provinces and they included the DIG Hazara region and some other DIGs and SPs.
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PSP officers shying away from postings in KP