UP: Exit plan for cops past 50 & lax at work

LUCKNOW: Facing heat over the sudden spurt in crime and CM Yogi Adityanath issuing stern orders for curbing all crime, UP Police has this year decided to centralise the performance review of all its personnel, from constable to inspector rank, who turned 50 on March 31, 2019, and compulsorily retire the non-performers.
The state police, including provincial armed constabulary (PAC), has total non-gazetted strength of 2.28 lakh, comprising 1.5 lakh constables, 48,846 head-constables, 25,320 sub-inspectors and 4,666 inspectors. The review is as per government service rules under which every employee's individual performance is assessed at the age of 50. In police department, till now, the respective SPs reviewed the performance of constables and head constables posted under them. Similarly, the performance of sub-inspectors and inspectors, on turning 50, was assessed by respective inspector generals of police till now.
"From this year onwards, the government has decided that the review will be done in a centralised manner by the establishment wing of UP Police," said additional director general of police (ADG), establishment, Piyush Anand.
"All police wings have been asked to submit details of personnel who turned 50, latest by June 30," he added.
When asked, senior officers confirmed to TOI that they were not aware of a single instance of any policeman being compulsorily retired from service following performance review at 50 years till now, unless he had been convicted in a criminal case of heinous nature.
The officials, however, said that this time the government appears serious in weeding out dead wood.