Soon, Punjab Police would have a separate wing for the NRI Policing. The NRI police wing would be set up under the Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) or the Inspector General of Police (IGP) of the NRI Affairs.
The wing would also have a dedicated NRI police force which would directly report to the ADGP or IGP NRI Affairs, and functioning under their direct command.
Announcing the formation of separate NRI police wing on Monday, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal said “The cabinet would soon take a decision for this special wing that would be under ADGP or IGP (NRI Affairs) with a dedicated NRI Police Force directly reporting to them under their direct command.”
Sukhbir said this on the sidelines of a special function organised to promote more than 1300 Punjab Police officers or officials. In all, 39 DSPs were promoted as SPs, 136 Inspectors as DSPs, 246 Sub-Inspectors (SIs) as Inspectors, 305 Assistant Sub Inspectors (ASIs) as SIs and 271 head constables as ASIs.
This is the second mass promotion order during past three years as in September 2011, Sukhbir had at the same venue promoted 5199 police personnel. Sukhbir, also the Home Minister, announced the promotion of 300 more head constables as ASIs in the next two days.
“During last three years, we have taken series of steps including record recruitment of more than 20,000 at different levels in police force, record promotions at every level besides initiating a series of welfare and housing steps especially for constabulary,” said Sukhbir.
He added that for the first time, during last 65 years that service rules of each category were drafted and finalized that could tackle most of the legal tangles being faced by the force in various course resulting in stagnation.
“I am proud of the fact that Punjab Police jawans are highest paid in the country and as per comparative data compiled by me, our jawans are drawing even more pay than inspectors of other States,” he added.
He said that community policing was introduced under which 153 SAANJH Kendras were working, and “300 more SAANJH Kendras have already been sanctioned to come up in next two years at the cost of Rs87 crore”. Sukhbir said that the State police has already recruited more than 20000 police personnel at different levels and out of which 2000 were lady constables.
He expressed satisfaction at working of Night Policing and said that many states were sending queries to Punjab as they want to replicate this model in their respective States.
He said that the State Government has also planned to roll-out many more new initiatives including the Rural Rapid Police Response System (RRPRS) to make the police assistance available within less than 20 minutes. Besides, Safe City Project in ludhiana and Amritsar, Senior Citizen Helpline, NRI Helpline are some other measures, which are likely to be implemented State-wide soon.