Times
of India: Nagpur: Thursday, 30 October 2014.
A Right to information (RTI) query exposed a
surprising trend among the officials of inspector ranks opting for different
types of leaves for extended periods on a frequent basis. At present, senior
inspectors of eight police stations, out of 23, are on leave along with
some from crime branch and other units despite the fact that city's crime graph
is rising.
The inspectors, who mostly occupy position of unit
in-charges, are responsible for implementing policing strategies and also work
as supervisor of the grassroots level cops. Leave applications of several
others are learnt to be waiting to be sanctioned.
As per the RTI query, crime branch's PI MD
Nalawade has already availed himself of 80 days leave since November
last year. Nalawade is again on leave now along with hordes of others from
crime branch despite frequent incidents of burglaries, thefts and robberies.
Crime branch PI Naresh Pawar too went on 24 days leave in March
immediately after availing of nine days respite for joining after transfer to
city.
The RTI query also showed that PI Rajendra Mane of
Dhantoli police station has also availed himself of 71 days of leave between
December in 2013 and March this year.
PI DP Sonawane of police control room too has
already taken leave of 84 days between February and June this year. Another PI from control room RS
Pawar too has already taken 39 days leave between July and September this year. Woman PI from traffic
department Subhada Sankhe too has already availed of 46 days leave between June and
July this year.
A section of senior cops, admitting their
helplessness to deal with the issue, claimed that inspectors were allowed to be
on leave on humanitarian grounds as a majority of them are outsiders working in
the city. City police chief KK Pathak too have opted for a break of couple of
days before preparation for forthcoming state assembly session begins on full
swing.
Additional CP Shrikant Tarwade is yet to return
after he proceeded on leave on health ground some months ago. DCP,
headquarters, SM Waghmare too is on leave after suffering a cardiac problem.
Couple of officials of assistant commissioner of police rank too are learnt to
be on leave.
Joint CP Anup Kumar Singh said his administration
opted to view the leave applications on lenient grounds due to Diwali. "We
considered leave applications with leniency as a prolonged period of state
assembly session is ahead with its elaborate preparation and round the clock
toil," said Singh. "We even insisted CP took a break," he said.
Former CP PKB Chakravorty said police
administration obviously faced a harrowing time adjusting the shortage of
manpower with so many vacancies already plaguing the system. "Implementing
Nagpur pact and deploying local officials here would have not allowed such a
situation to arise in the first place," said Chakravorty.
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