DGP orders all Punjab Police personnel to report back to their parent district

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, October 6  

Punjab Director General of Police (DGP) Iqbal Preet Singh Sahota on Wednesday ordered all the police officers in districts or units to send unauthorised police personnel back to their parent district immediately.

In its order issued to all heads of police offices in Punjab and all officers posted out of Punjab Police Department, the DGP stated that it has been observed that some police officers on their transfer from one district or unit to another take some police officials in their personal staff or otherwise from their previous place of posting to the new station/unit after their transfer.

“This practice leads to a number of administrative problems and it needs to be discontinued in the interest of professional propriety,” the order— which came on the directions of Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa—directing that all officials who have taken police officers of various with them without proper authorisation at the time of their posting or transfer(s) to direct all such police personnel, except their security, to report back to their respective parent districts immediately.