Bhubaneswar, July 19: Deputy Superintendents of Police (DSPs) recruited directly to the Odisha Police Service (OPS) in 2016 in the Odisha Civil Service Examination conducted by the OPSC, are fuming as they have received neither any promotion nor elevated to the IPS even after eight years of posting.
Those working under their juniors at the time of their appointment and those Inspectors promoted directly as DSPs in 2021 have been promoted to the rank of Additional SPs in 2023. These juniors were given promotions even though no catch up principle was in execution and in violation of General Administration and Meghachandra rules. Thus, the previous BJD Government is perceived to have taken a step-motherly attitude towards DSPs appointed through DSPs.
Even though some cases relating to promotion have been pending in the Orissa High Court, the promotions given to the juniors look like nothing but violations of the principle of natural justice. Though more than one year has passed since the HC completed hearings, the judgment is still pending.
Ironically, DIG-level officers were posted as SPs in different districts due to the lack of IPS officers during the general elections recently. All Odisha cadre IPS posts, which are to be filled through promotion, have been lying vacant. Officers of other cadres, appointed at the time of OPSC-recruited DSPs and OPSs, have received two promotions by now. However, the State government has shown a step-motherly attitude toward the OPSC-recruited DSPs.
Meanwhile, the OPSC-recruited DSPs have urged the new Government to give due promotions to them and fill up the vacant Odisha cadre-IPS posts without any further delay.
Direct recruitment to the Odisha Police Service-cadre as DSP was discontinued in 1977. The process was revived through examination by the Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) in 2011. Though OPSC invited applications in 2011, the examination was held five years later in 2015.
