Indications are that the Kamal Kumar report recommendations on recruitment in the IPS through a limited departmental / competitive examination has been accepted with certain modifications by the Govt.
Every year, till about 2020, the UPSC would be recruiting officers directly into the IPS through a separate examination which would be over and above the quota of officers recruited through the regular Civil Services Examination.
The QR for the above would most probably be 5 years of service in the Army or the CAPFs at Group A level. It remains to be seen whether the seniority would be protected or not. The age limit shall be 35 years which marks a 10 year reduction from the 45 years recommended by Mr Kamal Kumar.
It is hoped and wished, that the forces would be magnanimous enough in smoothly approving the release of officers who are selected in the said examination.
This is a departure from the earlier reservations expressed by senior police officers on intake of military officers in the IPS. The relevant part of the report signifying the earlier thought process runs as under :-
4.2.7. Strong reservations were voiced against the induction of Army officers too, since many of the above obstacles would have to be confronted in their case as well. It was also pointed out that the Army itself was suffering from an acute shortage of officers which was much greater than that in the IPS, and it would not be prudent in the overall national interest to poach on the Army’s officer strength. The argument against the discharged officers of the Short Service Commission was that apart from the difficulties in imparting meaningful training to them in conceptual and practical skills of crime investigation etc. aspects of policing at their late age, it had also to be kept in mind that those who were not found good enough by the Army for further retention, may hardly be found useful for the IPS.
19 comments:
The arguement against the induction of SSC officers must be called "beautiful" to say the least. And the Army too must utilise this "beautiful" arguement to say that those students who did not have it in them chose to go for the non defence services.
Will this arguement ever work? or better still; when will such arguements work?!!
Good for SS offrs who do not get/opt for PRC. The system must support them in their resettlement
Sir,LTD. EXAM.FOR INDUCTION INTO IPS IT IS NOT NECESSARY THAT THOSE COULD NOT PROVED BETTER IN ARMY/NAVY/AIR FORCE,WILL NOT BE PROVE BETTER IN IPS BY IMPARTING EXCELLENT TRAINING AND PERSONAL INTEREST,+VE ATTITUDE, HONESTY, FOR NATION AND SOCIETY. AS TILL NOW I FOUND A CORRUPT ALSO COMES FROM THIS SOCIETY THUS, SYSTEM IS HAMPERED TO SOCIETY AND NATION SUFFER.
Is this applicable only to army officers or is it for all three forces Viz Army, Navy and Airforce
The opportunity to compete for the IPS in the lilmted manner shall be perhaps open for all the three services.It is very unfortunate that the views of senior IPS officers on policy matters of national interest when considered by the HMA/Govt. of India are seen in isolation and accepted as gospel truth. The considered opinion of the Army/Navy/ Airforce are not taken care of.This happens due to the close reach of this lobby with the government. It is a known fact that during deployment of Army in the State of Punjab for I.S. duties in late eighties and early ninties the direct IPS officers managed to go out of the state on even non cadre jobs. It was a mass exodus just to avod serving under the control/command of Army officers.State PPS officers were promoted to IPS to man the appoitments at district and range level. This is the same lobby who is tiring to mislead the state under imaginary fears.On the contrary the system would enable the bond between Army and Civil Police to grow and there would be better understanding and co-ordination.However one should not forget that the written competitive examination shall be tough unlike the one conducted by UPSC for IMA/OTA. Let the officers of three services be motivated and encouraged to appear in the examination with full support of the organisation. Army had already missed the boat way back in early sixties to send officres in BSF for manning the service on the pattern of Assam Rifle. Service HQ should not create any hurdle in the proposed system on false notions/ prestige.It would rather attract a good number of young men and women to join three services in aroute to reaching civil services.
Lt Col B S Chaudhary
Dear Major Navdeep Sir and all Dear Blog Readers,
Time is now ripe that it ought to be most prudent to create a cadre to be known as "Indian Military Service" (IMS). Commissioned officers may wear golden insignia of IMS on their shoulders to replace the Corps or Regiment letters, where applicable. Just as civilian counterparts are assigned States / UTs etc, the Commissioned Officers of Armed Forces to be labelled as IMS may be assigned to one of the three sister services namely the Army, the Navy and the Air Force. Wearing of IMS insignia in brass letters should be good enough for identification, since the officers will wear uniform of their assigned Service / Cadre. This will only have warrant change in the policies and no monetary loss to the exchequer is anticipated. However, to minimise the existing wide gap of career progression between Defence Services and Civil Services, the assured career progression schemes on a par with those applicable to All India Services / Central Civil Services (Group 'A') need to extended to the proposed IMS Officers as well. This meausre will not only attract the capable youth equally towards both sides (rather more toward Armed Forces for obvious reasons). The proposed Ombudsman against corruption should take care of the hunger for income other than transparent source of income in all types of services, particularly govt / public services. Important to add here that entry into the proposed IDS must be made as competitive as on the civil side. As for huge numbers of officers of paramilitary forces, a similar provision needs to be brought about. The proposal mooted above for Defence Officers should also be implemented for para military officers with the only change that Para Military Officers may be authorized to wear silver coloured insignia "Indian Para Military Service" (IPMS) on shoulders. A suitable badge indicating the Para Military Service they belong to can be worn on both or any one arm. By doing so, the race and quest among the capable and the aspiring youth for making it to the Civil Services alone, setting aside Uniformed Services as the last resort (except IPS or maybe State Police Service Class I /II)can perhaps be addressed for ever.
Man ke ladoo feeke kyon. Kyon sahebaan, kaisa lagaa yah "Kadapee Asambhav Prastaav" !!!! Ha....ha......ha..... Wishing one and all Happy Diwali, Sweet Diwali, Bright Diwali and more important than all else SAFE DIWALI.
Tons of thanks to Maj Navdeep Sir for his untiring efforts to educate us all at the cost of his own valuable time and despite preoccupations.
The comment that SS officers were not found good enough for further retention needs to be clarified. Yes, there are some officers who are not competent enough but on an average, its the best and competent officers who take the risk of venturing out on another career.Hence, there should be a different yardstick between SS officers opting out and not granted PrC.
Would anywhere in the world the serving young officers of a regular Army jostle for joining as police officers ?
That too not for seeking softer vocation but for reasonably dignified career growth opportunities. It is a shame.
There is a well calibrated design in place for about 2 decades or so to systematically marginalise the services in every possible manner from strategic security architecture of the nation. Now the effort is to make them an extension of the innumerable paramilitaries (whose roles incidentally are still under definition!).
The armed forces have been humbled to an extent that they are are being reduced to fighting for retention ofexisting parity with paramilitaries !(E.g. Cdrs of the Navy vz. Comdt of CG).
Soon the grant designs will succeed and the highly professional military that we have today will “grow” into a ragtag one.
Then you can deploy the “Cobras”, “Gray Hounds”, “Earth Worms” and the “NSG Badges”(Minus much maligned Army component) to deal with the Chinese who in any case are seem determined call the bluff.
The CAPF in india feel that they are equal to army in every way.They do not consider navy and airforce as defence services.even in this case only army officers can write the exam not navy or airforce.........it's surprising that the other two services are allowing this to happen.and the army itself is not bothered about the same.There are cases wherein the army has been short changed by the other services too...when will we all learn to voice our opinion as one???
Dear sir, what is the progress in this regard & are the vacancies going to open anytime soon? Also please educate as to what will be the pattern of the exam?
Gaurav & tejinder
Is this opportunity not open for Permanent Commission Officers???
Dear Maj Navdeep, is this exam for permanent commissioned officers also,please give some information
Dear Maj Navdeep,
Are AMC and AD Corps SSC officers also eligible for induction into the IPS Cadre? Kindly cast some light on it.
Thanks!
Capt Varun Nischal
Some gunk I.P.S so and so in a oblique report, makes a crazy statement which is bereft of logic or reasoning, that released Short Service Commissioned officers are no good for IPS as " Army has rejected them"!.
Do some homework retd IPS ji. Permanent commission optees not getting vigilance clearance are rejected which is rarest of the rare. 99.99% officers released by army are by officers' own accord.
Ha ! the retired genius should atleast understand the pitfalls of a prejudiced statement and biased allegation.
Merit of the candidate on a case to case basis should have been stressed.
There are a plethora of reasons: family, health, parents which influence decisions to opt for a release for SSC officers.
Retired defence personnel have brought laurels in every domain they have ventured in their 2nd careers( capt gopinath- air deccan, DLF's K P singh and many more corporate warriors).
I exhort that such maligning statements against released SSC officers, be expunged from the report.
vicks
Atleast these army officers (after being IPS) will live their life in peace as on ground level DIG/SP doesnt know how to lead team but have been given bigger profile than officer who is responsible for many lives.
Dear Maj Navdeep,
I must congratulate you for doing this great service of updating the service personnel. This opportunity of IPS cadre for Ex armed forces officers- in a way would transform the Internal security system in the longer term because of inherent imprint of purity of many virtues on the personality of all these officers from defense background. Lets welcome such positive decisions for many many reasons.
Dear Sir, Sincerely wanted to know if limted entry into IPS has materialised for permanent commision officers after giving any exam? plz do tell
Regards Ankur!
dear sir,
pl tell me that for this ltd entry,i have to apch MS branch or upsc.if i would like to know about it pl tall me detail.
vishnu.
vishnuyasha@yahoo.co.in
Is there any progress in this proposal or it is going to remain in draft stage for eternity!!!!!!, Officers who are looking for best of life style & service to nation and ethos should continue to be in Services, there is no other better place. I can vouch for after working in Army, Corporates and Public Sector undertaking.
Officers who are confident that they can be change agent and do not change instead from honest to corrupt are welcome to this game of politics and corrupt environment.
Major Christo
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