Last Updated on July 14, 2021 at 12:19 pm
About 28 Jammu and Kashmir Police Services (JKPS) are likely to be inducted into The Indian Police Service (IPS). After the Jammu and Kashmir government started the process of induction of 40 J&K Administrative Services (JKAS) officers into The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) now its turn for JKPS.
A high level meeting is likely to take place on July 29 where Senior Officers from Centre and UT to be present in the meeting to finalize induction of JKPS officers into IPS.
This will be for the first time that after a decade JKPS officers will be inducted into the IPS.
The final decision will depend on the high-level Panel that how many JKPS officers will be considered for induction into IPS. It is likely that 28 in-service JKPS officers may be inducted along with a few who have already retired from the service. They could be treated as inducted into the IPS from 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 while the years of allotment could start from 2007 and last till 2010 but it depends on committee for final decision.
Earlier, out of a total of 147 IPS posts in Jammu and Kashmir, 80 were reserved for Regular Recruits (direct IPS officers) and 67 for State Police Services (SPS), who are inducted into IPS from JKPS. This was part of UPA Government’s special formula for Jammu and Kashmir under which 50 percent posts each were reserved for Regular Recruits and SPS officers.
JKPS officers who will be inducted into the IPS following which they will get AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram Union Territories) cadre as the Union Home Ministry had recently merged erstwhile J&K cadre into AGMUT as J&K was made a UT on August 5, 2019.
