In order to comply with the instructions of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the Home department has started giving approval for new posts in the police force to ensure availability of manpower as per the requirement and to make the police administration better.
The move will make the law and order of the state more efficient and help in controlling crimes more effectively.
Giving this information, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi said that about 5,381 new posts had been approved by the government for various units of the police force like cyber crime, forensic science, social media, STF, ATS etc.
Awasthi said that out of these 5,381 posts, there were 86 gazetted category posts and 5,295 non-gazetted posts.
In the gazetted category, three posts of ADG, three of IG, six of DIG, 32 of superintendent of police, seven of additional superintendent of police, one of joint director prosecution and 35 posts of deputy superintendent of police are included.
It is noteworthy that three posts of ADG and IG and six posts of DIG have been created for the districts having police commissionerate.
Out of 32 posts of superintendent of police, one post is for ATS, 17 for police commissionerate system in Lucknow/Gautam Buddha Nagar, 11 for police commissionerate in Kanpur/Varanasi Nagar, one for cyber crime police station and two posts for strengthening ATS.
Out of seven posts of additional superintendent of police, two are for ATS, three for cyber crime police station, one for Bijnor and one for Gorakhnath temple security. Besides, one post of joint director, prosecution has been created for ATS.
Awasthi said that under the new 34 posts of deputy superintendent of police, four were for ATS, one for STF unit in Ayodhya, eight for regional connectivity scheme, one each for additional circle officers in Chandauli, Lalitpur, Sambhal, Gonda respectively, 16 posts for cyber crime police station, and one for Gorakhnath temple security.
Besides, posts have been created for 5,295 non-gazetted personnel for other units like ATS, STF, cyber crime station, finger print bureau, police station etc.
In the category of non-gazetted personnel, 179 posts of inspector, 408 of sub-inspector (male), 79 of sub-inspector (female), 45 of inspector of armed police, 2,999 of sub-inspectors, two of inspector bigular, 18 sub-inspector bigular, one of radio inspector, two of radio sub-inspector, nine of head operator, 12 operator, 14 assistant operator, 41 of computer operator Grade-A, 695 of computer operator Grade-B, 286 of computer operator Grade-C, 103 of programmer Grade-2, one of inspector in MT section. 29 of sub-inspector (confidential assistant), 17 of sub-inspector in armed police, 44 of inspector-accounts, one of sub-inspector-accounts, 18 of sub-inspector-accounts in armed police, 264 of Class IV and 10 of tradesmen have been created.