PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is having the youngest deputy inspectors general (DIGs) in the country since posting of the officers of the 26th Common Training Programme (CTP) of the Police Service of Pakistan and is likely to get more in the coming days.

 

 

 

More young officers from the 26th and 27th CTP of the Police Service of Pakistan (PSP) are likely to be posted against the key positions as more officers recruited through the Provincial Civil Service (PCS) are to be relegated under the directives of the Establishment Division.

 

 

 

Two officers of the 26th CTP, serving in Grade 19, have been posted DIGs in their own pay and scale after relegating officers of the PCS. A young PSP, Mohammad Alam Shinwari, has been posted as DIG Mardan while Nisar Khan Tanoli has been appointed DIG investigation at the Central Police Office, after two PCS officers Abdullah Khan and Iftikhar Khan have been relieved from senior slots.

 

 

 

Two officers of the 25th CTP, Qazi Mohammad Jameel and Mazharul Haq, were so far the youngest DIGs in the country. One of their batch mates, Awal Khan, is yet to get any slot of the DIG and is serving as AIG now. Another officer of the 26th CTP, Mohammad Jafar, is also serving as AIG.

 

 

 

The provincial government and authorities of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police are looking for more officers to be posted against senior positions as the relegation of 12 officers of the PCS has created a big vacuum.

 

 

 

Despite several requisitions by the provincial government, senior officers from other provinces are reluctant to report to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa because of the law and order situation and, according to them, many other reasons.

 

 

 

In case of the appointment of relegated officers against the junior positions, more officers of the junior batches, including the 27th CTP, are likely to get senior positions in the province. Some of the officers, it is learnt, have refused to be made DIGs while a few have decided to wear the same ranks of Grade 19 even if posted as DIGs, to avoid embarrassment in case of their transfer out of the province and implementation of the Supreme Court directives regarding the policy of shoulder promotion.

 

 

 

The newly appointed officers are likely to take at least three to five years to be promoted to Grade 20, a grade for DIGs.