JAMMU: The Union Territory administration is reported to have cleared the promotion of 15 police officers as Superintendents of Police (SPs) while four SSPs will be promoted as DIGs after completion of their training at Hyderabad Police Academy and allotment of year on their induction as IPS. The Union Home Ministry is understood to have cleared the posting of two more IPS officers to Jammu and Kashmir even as two natives of Jammu are awaiting their posting in the Union Territory.
Top official sources told that following approval by the Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC), the Public Services Commission (PSC) has also given nod for promotion of 15 police officers as SPs. Formal orders of the promotion are likely to be issued shortly, they said, adding the promotion of officers as SPs will generate more posts of DySPs which will be filled either through direct quota or by promotion from the Inspectors.
