Dozens Of Delhi Police Stations Appear Helpless In The Ongoing Power Struggle! Obstacles in SHO Recruitment

Due to the ongoing conflict at the top level of the Delhi Police, more than three dozen SHOs are not being appointed in various police stations.

Surprisingly, even the police commissioner does not appear to be serious about it.

As a result, more than a dozen police stations have been operating without an SHO for an extended period of time.

While SHOs in more than a dozen police stations are responsible for the station head’s work even after being promoted to ACP.

Not only that but the inspectors who have been overseeing SHO work for more than three years have not been fired.

While the police headquarters had made it a rule that inspectors who had previously served as SHOs

Appointment to the post of SHO is not happening

The Delhi Police is being overshadowed by the Union Home Ministry’s plan to deny IPS officers from the UT cadre the position of Police Commissioner. Sanjay Arora, the department’s Police Commissioner, has been unable to do any special work in the direction of empowering the police station since his appointment.

To appoint SHOs in police stations, a committee was formed. In which the process of interviewing inspectors has been ongoing for approximately six to seven months.

However, no orders for his appointment have been issued.

According to sources, the decision on the appointment of the SHO is being delayed due to personal conflicts of the officers posted at the top levels of the Delhi Police.

Not following their own rules

In fact, there is a norm in the police department that the SHO posted in any police station will be transferred after two years. Police Commissioner Sanjeev Arora, after his appointment, had made a rule that inspectors who had been posted as SHOs for three years would not be re-appointed to this post.

But many special inspectors who were posted as SHO for 34 or 35 months have not been removed from this post. In such a situation, questions are being raised about the rules of the police headquarters itself.

The reality of world-class police

According to departmental information, there are about 15 police stations in Delhi where the posted SHOs have either been suspended or are on the line.

But still, permanent SHO has not been posted in these police stations. While the SHO posted in almost the same number of police stations for two consecutive years has not been removed. Not only this, the time of three to three and a half years has passed for the SHOs posted in about one and a half dozen police stations.

There are also more than a dozen such SHOs, who have become ACP after getting promotions last year but are still looking after the work of SHO.

Cases like this

It is not that every Inspector of Delhi Police is eager to become SHO. It is said that the inspectors posted on the post of SHO have requested in writing to be removed from this post.

While there are more than ten cases in which the District Deputy Commissioners of Police have written to remove the SHO posted in their area. But these applications and requests are also getting dusted in the files.

Controversy over the SHO appointment committee

Today, when the Prime Minister is ending the interview process even for jobs, the Commissioner of Police has formed a committee only for the appointment to the post of SHO.

This committee of Special Commissioners of Police has been conducting interviews continuously for the last six-seven months for an appointment to these posts. However, there is a dispute regarding the formation of this committee.

If the officers posted in the department are to be believed, there is no provision in the Delhi Police to take interviews or constitute a committee for posting on any post from ACP to Special CP. So how can such a rule for appointment to the post of SHO be considered appropriate?

Allegations of favors to certain people

For the past several years, from charging a hefty amount for posting to the post of SHO to giving preference to people belonging to one’s own caste or community, there have been continuous allegations.

One such case had also come to the fore in the past. According to police sources, a special commissioner carried out the exercise of appointing several officers belonging to special castes from Haryana and Rajasthan as SHOs.

But someone complained about this matter along with the names of the officers of a particular caste who were selected for this post. When the file of appointment to these posts reached the top level, the facts written in the complaint were confirmed.

This was the reason why the list of the Special Commissioner of Police was stopped.

The clash started at the top level!

If highly placed sources are to be believed, with this a controversy started in the history of Delhi Police, in which egos of officers posted at top positions clashed with each other.

As a result, the process of appointment of SHOs in more than three dozen police stations has remained buried in the files. In such a situation, the question arises whether the leadership of Delhi Police has become so weak that it cannot even finalize the appointment process of SHO to improve the law and order of Delhi.

When police spokesperson DCP Suman Nalwa was questioned in this regard, he refused to make any comment.