Firstpost: Lucknow: Friday,
April 12, 2013.
A Right to
Information (RTI) query has revealed that 1,828 officers of the provincial
police service (PPS) in Uttar Pradesh were transferred in Uttar Pradesh in the
last two years.
This, the RTI
response says, includes 478 officers of additional superintendent rank (ASP)
and 1,350 deputy superintendents (DSP).
The RTI
response 307 ASP rank officers got transferred during the regime of Akhilesh
Yadav in 2012 while 171 were transferred in 2011 when Mayawati was the chief
minister.
A total of
892 DSP rank officers were transferred in 2012 and 458 in 2011.
The 723-page
information sent to Thakur April 4 also details that in 263 cases, the
government either cancelled or modified its own previous order.
It said that
on four occasions, more than 100 provincial police service officers got
transferred through one single government order.
Officials
admit privatelyh that such frequent and largescale transfers were a major
reason behind the failing law and order in the state.
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