
MUMBAI, MAY 24: In a major reshuffle, 864 police sub-inspectors from various police stations in the city have been transfered vide a special notice issued today. The transfers, however, are routine and are not an attempt to shunt out officers whose backgrounds are suspect. There are 5,000 sub-inspectors attached to 76 police stations in the city.
The transfers are an annual exercise but have been effected at one go this time around. They did however create a flutter among the rank and file as anxious policemen browsed through the six-page notice wondering where they would have to report for work next. Others wanted to know whether batchmates at the Police Training College had also been transfered.
Officers who found a posting at police stations at D B Marg, V P Road, Agripada, Ghatkopar, Bhandup, Yellow Gate and Mulund were a broad grin as they perused the notice as the areas notorious for the commercial establishments and activities in their precincts.
Even as news of the junior-level transfers spread,the department is rife with rumours of transfers at the level of commissioner of police and the sensitive post of joint commissioner of police crime.
The grapevine has it that Inspector General Thane Range Ranjit Singh Sharma will replace R H Mendonca and Special Inspector General of Police Anti-Corruption Bureau Hassan Gaffoor would replace D Shivanandan as Joint Commssioner of Police Crime. However, Chief Minister Narayan Rane maintains that the police commissioner and director general of police will not be replaced at this juncture. He says transfers will be effected at the level of deputy commissioner of police and joint commissioner of police.
Also impending are the transfers of the director general of police, DG Anti-Corruption Bureau, Additional Commissioner of Police CID and Commissioner CID intelligence.