For faster promotions, Maharashtra police seeks to scrap assistant inspector, police Naik posts
Currently, an officer who joins as PSI is promoted as API, then inspector and eventually retires as assistant commissioner of police (ACP) after over 30 years of service.
The proposal to do away with the API post is still being scrutinised at the DGP office. (Representative Image) The Maharashtra Police is in the process of sending a proposal to the state home department seeking to scrap the post of assistant police inspector (API) to enable its personnel climb up the hierarchy at a swifter pace. It has already submitted a proposal to scrap the post of police Naik (PN) to the home department.
The proposal to do away with the API post is still being scrutinised at the DGP office. Both proposals are said to be the brainchild of DGP Sanjay Pandey who frequently interacts with the rank and file of the over two-lakh strong force.
The proposal to scrap API post, which is currently being drafted, will seek to enable an officer who joins the force as a sub-inspector (PSI) to go up to the rank of the superintendent of police (SP) by the time he or she retires, said sources in the DGP office. “To enable this to happen, it is being proposed that the intermediary post of API be scrapped,” an officer said.
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