Dilli Ka Babu: Commissioner system in UP
Deccan ChronicleIn the backdrop of the anti-CAA agitation and to improve the law and order situation in the state, Uttar Pradesh has decided to implement the long-pending plan for a police commissioner system in the state, starting with Noida and Lucknow. Sources say that the commissioner system will give local police chiefs a free hand to act swiftly in a law and order situation instead of district police chiefs seeking permission from the district magistrate. J&K officers feel a crunch The Centre’s decision to lower the quota for local officers from the state services in IAS and IPS in Jammu and Kashmir has expectedly not been received well in the Union territory. Several babus have said that the decision would impede the already retarded career prospects of the Kashmir Administrative Service and Kashmir Police Service officers.