Sindh at odds with Centre over police rotation policy
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March 2, 2021
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has taken notice of the pick-and-choose policy adopted by the Establishment Division in transferring and posting police officers after the publication of a story by The News. Shah has now instructed the provincial chief secretary to write to the Establishment Division for reviewing its decision.
Confronting the federal government’s Establishment Division for issuing transfer orders of six DIGs under a pick-and-choose policy, the Sindh government sources said that under the Rotation Policy, the first batch of seven top officers are supposed to be rotated followed by the next batch after a six months interval. The Establishment Division, according to provincial government sources, instead of going by the book went ahead with a preordained selective basis to transfer officers falling on serial numbers 3, 10, 13, 17 and 20. This manifests that certain officers were especially chosen for transfer from Sindh, rather than following the protocol of the rotation policy.