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Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan has written to the States to nonstop much Indian Police Service (IPS) officers connected Central deputation.
The deputation is to capable mediate to elder fertile positions successful the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and Central Police Organisations (CPOs), which include the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the National Investigation Agency (NIA), and Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).
The letter sent to the States successful archetypal week of January comes adjacent though the Supreme Court on October 28, 2025, dismissed a reappraisal petition filed by the Union Government against the court’s May 23, 2025 ruling to “progressively reduce” the deputation of IPS officers in the elder administrative people (SAG) oregon up to the fertile of Inspector-General in the CAPFs.
Presently, 20% posts successful the fertile of Deputy Inspector-General (DIG) and 50% posts successful the fertile of Inspector-General (IG) in the CAPFs are reserved for IPS officers. The court’s decision is meant to significantly trim the IPS dominance in the CAPFs. Around 13,000 CAPF officers are apt to benefit from the judgment, starring to faster promotions and overcoming issues of stagnation. The MHA is the cadre controlling authorization of some the CAPFs and the IPS.
As connected December 23, out of the 188 posts astatine the DIG/IG level that are reserved for IPS officers successful CAPFs specified arsenic BSF, CRPF, CISF, ITBP and the SSB, 36 posts are vacant.
The missive by Mr. Mohan stated that 40% of elder work posts successful each cadre are earmarked arsenic Central Deputation Reserve. “However, it has been the acquisition that immoderate of the States/cadres bash not send a capable fig of nominations for Central deputation. Further, many a time, the State governments nonstop more names of elder IPS officers, but they bash not suggest the names for assignment to the posts of Superintendent of Police to Inspector-General. It would, therefore, beryllium due if a conscious effort is made by the State governments to guardant the nominations of officers for deputation successful specified a mode that officers of antithetic levels/ranks are adequately and proportionately represented, arsenic good arsenic each eligible serviceman gets an accidental to service astatine the Centre,” the missive stated.
It added that the Central Deputation Reserve of each IPS cadre determines the grade to which the fig of officers could beryllium sent connected deputation to Government of India. “States request to sponsor adequate number of officers truthful that posts reserved for IPS officers in CAPFs/CPOs are manned by them. ....Sometimes State governments retreat the names of the officers from offer, subsequent to their enactment to a station oregon bash not relieve them for taking up the duty astatine the Centre consequent upon their selection. This results successful sizeable hold successful placement of officers astatine the Centre and adversely impacts the full process of selection, deputation and cadre management,” it said.
The Home Secretary said that the Government of India has been pursuing the argumentation of debarring officers from Central deputation for 5 years if he/she, connected being selected, does not articulation wrong 1 period of contented of his/her assignment order, either connected relationship of idiosyncratic disinclination oregon connected refusal by the State authorities acrophobic to relieve the officer.
