Bhubaneswar: After drawing heavy flak for shielding police officers who were reluctant to leave the Commissionerate Police, the authorities Tuesday transferred many officers out of the Commissionerate.
The reports criticising the officers had appeared in many newspapers after it first came out in Orissa POST November 26, 2018. The report was based on a reply received by this correspondent on an RTI application.
The Police Establishment Board transferred 22 officials through a notification Monday. Out of them, many who have completed around 10 years in the twin-city are posted outside the current Urban Police districts. They have been working in twin-city since the inception of the Commissionerate Police.
The RTI reply revealed that eight such officers from the rank of SIs to Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police who had never left the twin city.
The officers are ADCP Mayadhar Sethi, the Additional DCP of Cuttack UPD, ACP Asim Kumar Panda who was in the Zone I of Bhubaneswar UPD, Rabinarayan Satpathy, the ACP of Zone VI, Krushna Prasad Mishra, the inspector in-charge of Mancheswar Police Station, Amita Tripathy and Sakuntala Pati and two sub-inspectors.
ACP Panda has been posted as SDPO at Panposh in Sundargarh district while Rabindra Satpathy has been posted as DSP IUCAW in Jajpur.
Additional deputy commissioner of police (ADCP) Mayadhar Sethi has been posted as the Additional SP of IUCAW at Berhampur.
Recently the Establishment Board of the Commissionerate Police was severely criticised after it shifted ACP Panda and ACP Satpathy to its headquarters instead of transferring them outside the capital area.
This case of the two ACPs is not an isolated one as many of these officers have not left their posts although their transfer orders were issued around two months ago.
Sources said Mancheswar IIC KP Mishra is a good example of such police officials who have been lobbying hard to get their transfer cancelled or at least get a posting near Bhubaneswar.
Many officers like the current ACP of traffic in the city, Anup Kumar Kanungo, have also tried similar tricks. He has never left the twin city, or has come back to the city after spending a few months or years at his new places of posting. Kanungo has been posted as the DSP IUCAW at Cuttack.
Similarly, many SIs and inspectors are busy lobbying with top officers to get their transfer orders cancelled.