Not contract hiring, 3,000 cops to be outsourced temporarily: DyCM Devendra Fadnavis

Speaking in the state legislative Assembly and Council, Fadnavis, who also holds the Home portfolio, gave a detailed statement on the matter asserting that these personnel will only perform security work and guard duty and will not be given any law enforcement and investigation work.

“The services of this MSSC personnel will be terminated after the completion of regular recruitment of police constable and once they joins the force,” Fadnavis said.

The home minister said that currently the posts of 10,000 police constables are vacant in Mumbai Police because of several reasons which includes no police recruitment in 2019, 2020 and 2021 and limited capacity of training the police personnel in the state.

Fadnavis said that as per the available facility for the police training, only 7,000-7,500 policemen can be trained every year and currently 7,076 police constable posts for Mumbai Police Commissionerate are being recruited through regular recruitment process.

It will take at least one-and-a-half to two years before the police constables will be available for actual duty after completion of their training, the minister added.

Fadnavis apprised the House that considering the large number of vacancies in Mumbai police commissionerate, the government approved the recruitment of 14,956 police constable posts and 2,174 police constable driver cadre posts as well as SRPF posts out of the vacant posts in the entire state and currently the police recruitment process for the 18,339 posts is underway.

“Among the posts to be filled, 7,076 posts of police constable and 994 posts of police driver are to be recruited for Mumbai Police Commissionerate. But even after filling the 7,076 posts, some posts will still remain vacant,” Fadnavis said in his statement in the council.

“Due to all these reasons, the Mumbai Police, in its letter on April 17 this year, had requested to provide 3,000 personnel from the MSSC. Following the request, through the government resolution on July 24, the outsourcing of 3,000 manpower from the MSSC for the period of 11 months has been approved,” he said.

Fadnavis also pointed out that the Maharashtra State Security Corporation, which is a corporation of the state government, has been providing its personnel for security at various central and state government offices, commercial establishments, public places.