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SSPs to DIGs: Interviews soon The Police Commission will commence interviews beginning July 11 to pick eleven Deputy Inspectors General (DIGs) of Police from 55 candidates who are now Senior Superintendents (SSPs). As revealed in The Sunday Times last week, the candidates include ten retired SSPs. The report said that Police Chief Chandra Fernando declined to comment on the inclusion of retired officers. However, Secretary to the National Police Commission K.C. Logeswaran told The Sunday Times in a letter, that the terms of the Establishment Code (Section 6.2 of Chapter II) do not debar the claims of retired officers being interviewed for promotion even after their retirement if they themselves were not responsible for the delay in the decision with regard to their promotions. He said the National Police Commission has taken action under these terms to summon such eligible retired Police officers for interviews to evaluate their claims for promotion to the rank of DIGs. “However, it would not mean that in the event of their being selected for promotion they would be recalled to service. The most they would be entitled to is an enhanced pension based on the salary and the prestige of the rank,” he said. The National Police Commission was, however, silent on whether such promotions would mean senior serving officers would be deprived of promotions. A Police source said the inclusion of one or more retired SSPs to fill the eleven vacancies would be at the expense of those serving. “It would be an injustice to promote those on retirement and thus deny a serving officer his rightful place,” the source said.
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