As many as 8,379 posts of police personnel of different categories are lying vacant in the State, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik informed the Assembly on Monday. To a query of MlA Dilip Ray the Chief Minister informed the House that against the sanctioned 65,732 posts (Till January 1, 2015) a mere 57,353 regular police personnel are working across the State.
In Group A category 323 posts are lying vacant against the sanctioned 998 positions while 2,697 positions are lying unfuilfiled in Group B category against the sanctioned 6,286 posts. Of the total 54,910 sanctioned positions in Group C category a record of 3,977 posts are lying vacant followed by 1,391 in Group D category against the sanctioned position of 3,538, the Chief Minister told the House.
The Chief Minister further informed the Assembly that 23 persons in Group A, nine from Group C and 66 from Group D categories are on deputation now. In a separate question of MlA Prakash Chandra Behera, Patnaik informed the House that at least 21 police officers are working in the rank of Superintendent of Police without having IPS rank. Two SP-rank officers, SP Signal and Computer-1 are in their same position for more than five years, Patnaik further informed.