Punjab DGP directs officers to relieve unauthorised cops in their personal staff

CHANDIGARH: Taking serious note of the practice being followed by some police officers of taking cops in their personal staff while being posted to another station, the officiating DGP of Punjab Iqbal Preet Singh Sahota has ordered all such officers to immediately relieve those cops to report back to their parent units.
“It has been observed that some police officers/officials on their transfer from one distt/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," reads the communication from officiating DGP’s office addressed to all heads of police office in Punjab and officers posted out of Punjab police department. The letter further adds, "This practice leads to a number of administrative problems and it needs to be discontinued in the interest of professional propriety."
There are a number of police officers who have kept some cops in their personal staff for years or even over a decade and take them along wherever they get posted.
Therefore, the state police chief has directed all such officers that if they have taken cops of different ranks along with them without proper authorisation to this effect at the time of their posting or transfer from one district or unit to another are ordered to direct all such police personnel, except their security, to report back to their respective parent districts or immediately.