Major reshuffle in police under rotation policy.

LAHORE -- The federal government has transferred 15 senior police officers under the new rotation policy 2020 approved by Prime Minister Imran Khan in order to rotate the officials after completion of 10-year period in a province or region.

The DIG-ranked officers reshuffled from the provinces and the federal government institutes were serving in BS-20.

Many of the officers were not expecting implementation on the policy at such a massive level.

The main feature of the development was that the federal government slapped a ban on a mandatory period of two years for the officers on their postings in the geographical limits of the station from where they were transferred.

15 senior officials transferred across country

It is said to be the first-ever practice adopted by any government to describe in the notification the reason for transfer of a police officer under the rotation policy.

The reshuffle of selective officers somehow shocked the PSP community as it believed that only 20 per cent of the total officials falling under this policy in the same grade were transferred, 'due to likes and dislikes'.

Most of the officers who have completed their more than 10-year tenure or even for more than 20-year period were yet serving in Punjab and Sindh, an official privy to the development told Dawn.

He feared that the government may use this policy or opportunity as a tool to allegedly victimise the officers for not following its 'all instructions'.

Giving a reference to the effect, he said, name of Rawalpindi City Police Officer DIG Ahsan Younas was also in the list of 15 police officers transferred by the government.

He said the DIG, who believed in merit, was known for his 'innovative' ideas in the PSP community to bring about reforms for a better service delivery.

These days, he was facing pressure from the 'political heavyweights' of the city to please them in some transfer/posting matters or to snub their rivals, he said.

Some MPAs complained to the Punjab chief minister and demanded transfer of Mr Ahsan from...