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Major reshuffle expected in Maharashtra Police leadership

The State Home Department in Maharashtra is gearing up for a significant overhaul of its top police leadership, including the position of Director General of Police (DGP) and Police Commissioners of Nagpur and Thane. The impending retirement of the current DGP, Rajnish Seth, on December 31 has prompted the department to commence the process of selecting his successor.A top rank official said that several prominent names have emerged as contenders for the esteemed position of State DGP. The frontrunner is Senior IPS Officer Rashmi Shukla, who currently serves as the Director General (DG) of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB). Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar is also a strong candidate for the role. Other notable contenders include Thane CP Jaijeet Singh, DG ATS Sadanand Date, DG Police Housing Sandeep Bishnoi, DG Railway Pradnya Sarvade, Additional Director of NIA Atulchandra Kulkarni, and DG State Security Corporation Bipin Kumar Singh, he said. He further stated that the State Home ...

Police kit purchase: direct cash transfer now

Maharashtra Police 

By Dheeraj Fartode 

After direct cash transfer scheme for LPG users implemented by Union government to reduce corruption and give direct benefits to end user, the Maharashtra police headquarters wants to introduce direct transfer in the force for police kit equipment purchasing. The move in this regard has been played by State Director General of Police (DGP) Sanjeev Dayal. About 1.7 lakh policemen (upto head constable rank) of state will be beneficiary  to get the direct cash transfer in their bank account for purchase of police kit.
Right now, the police personnel get kit from their respective central depots. Once this scheme gets nod, the police personnel can purchase their own equipments from authorised stores.
“A proposal has been sent to the home ministry for approval and we are pursuing to get approval,” said DGP Sanjeev Dayal. When asked about reason for implementation of the scheme, the state DGP said that the companies, which are short-listed to provide police kit, are unable to provide the kit on such a large scale. The police department has to accord first priority to government undertkaings, prison units and khadi gramodyog. In practice, private contractrors supply the sub-standard goods on behalf of these establishments, sources claimed.
“After implementation of the process, the state police headquarters will publish the list of authorised establishments so that policemen, can purchase the approved kit equipments,” he added.
Standard kit includes state police uniform, boots, socks, water bottles, police stick, mats, belt and buckle, blanket, raincoat, long winter coat, police caps, shield, cotton and metal shoulder badges, torch and other equipments etc.
Sources informed that state police spends Rs 60 crore annually for purchasing of police kit through old tendering process. The move has been introduced by the DGP office, only to end up corruption in the tendering process of kit equipments. There will be pre-set specifications for kit equipments and the cops will able to get the equipments of good quality.

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