Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 18: Chairman JKNPP Harsh Dev Singh has sought a comprehensive probe including the mode of engagement of SPOs during the past three year apart from their antecedents.
He said that while the SPOs and other police personal working as moles for the terror outfits as per intelligence inputs needed to be identified, the Govt also needed to probe the illegitimate engagements of SPOs in the State during the last three years whose numbers was believed to be in thousands.
“Police force which is entrusted with restoration of law and order and the most sacrosanct duty of protecting the lives and liberties of the citizens is supposed to be recruited with due diligence having due regard for the aptitude, suitability and antecedents”, observed Singh. He said that after the killings of soldier Aurangzeb and Javid Ahmed Dar, several reports had suggested that around 200 to 300 SPOs and some regular police constables were acting as moles and such like incidents were the outcome of sabotage from within the police force.
While identification of moles in police force, working as mercenaries of terror outfits is imperative, the selection process of police personnel also needs to be made fool proof and stringent with through enquiry into the previous conduct, background and character verification of the probable recruits. And unfortunately this aspect has been completely ignored in the past, said Harsh, adding that the political and other backdoor appointees have been primarily responsible for leaking vital operational information to anti national elements.
Drawing the attention of the Governor’s Administration towards large scale backdoor appointments of SPOs during the last three years, Harsh Dev Singh appealed that that enquiry ordered into screening of the SPOs must also go into the question of procedure adopted for their recruitments.
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