Appointments and Enrolments 363 PUNJAB POLICE RULES VOLUME 2 CHAPTER 12 Appointments and Enrolments Rule 12.1 12.1. Authorities empowered to make appointments. - (1) Assistant Superinten- dents of Police are appointed by the Secretary of State for India, either in England or in India, according to the rules framed by him from time to time. Deputy Superintendents of Police are appointed by the Provincial Government accord- ing to rules contained in Appendix 12.1. The following table summarises the directions given by the Provincial Government un- der clause (b) of sub-section (1) of Section 241 of the Government of India Act, 1935, in regard to the authorities competent to make appointments to the non-gazetted ranks. 123 Class of Government ser- Authority to whom the power of appointment is The extent of the vants delegated. delegation Inspectors Deputy Inspectors-General of Police, Assistant Full powers subject to Inspector- General, Government Railway Police, rules governing the Assistant Inspector-General, Provincial Additional conditions of service as Police, (designated as Commandant, Provincial defined in Police Rules. Additional Police), and the Assistant Inspector- General of Police (Traffic) Sergeants, Sub-Inspectors Superintendents of Police and Deputy Superintendent and Assistant Sub-Inspec- (Administrative), Government Railway Police and tors. Assistant Superintendent, Government Railway Police. Head Constables and Con- Superintendents of Police, and Deputy stables Superintendent, (Administrative), Government Railway Police, Assistant Superintendent, Government Railway Police, Deputy Superintendents incharge of Railway Police Sub-Divisions, Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police, Lahore and [Officers in-charge, of Police Constables Training Centres,]* Deputy Superintendent of Police, Punjab Armed Police, Lahanl and Spiti *See Punjab Government Notification No. G.S.R. 43/C.A. 5/1861/S.7/Amd, dated 4-4-1988. (2) All direct appointments to non-gazetted ranks above that of constable and all first ap- pointments of civilian clerks shall be made by the appointing authority on consideration of the recommendations of a selection board. Such Boards shall be constituted accord- ance with the orders of the Inspector- General. (3) The power to confirm the appointment of officers appointed on probation vests in the prescribed appointing authority. (4) Inspectors shall be borne on a provincial roll and shall receive provincial constabu- 364 Punjab Police Rules, 1934 Volume 2, lary numbers. Sergeants shall be borne on a separate provincial roll and shall receive separate provincial constabulary numbers. Sub-Inspectors and Assistant Sub-Inspectors shall be borne on range rolls and shall re- ceive range constabulary numbers. Head constables and constables in each district shall be borne on district rolls and shall receive district constabulary numbers. (5) In matters relating to general conditions of service such as pay, pension, leave, join- ing time and travelling allowance, the subordinate ranks of the Police force of the State of Punjab shall be governed by the Punjab Civil Service Rules, for the time being in force, in so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions contained in these rules.]1 Rule 12.2 12.2. Seniority and probation. - (1) The seniority of Assistant Superintendents of Po- lice is regulated by the orders passed from time to time by the Secretary of State and the Central Government. No Probationary Assistant Superintendent of Police shall be permanently appointed as an Assistant Superintendent of Police until he has passed the prescribed departmental ex- aminations. A Probationary Assistant Superintendent of Police who does not qualify by passing these examinations within two years, or at the first examination after two years, from the date of his joining the service, will be removed from Government service; provided that the Provincial Government shall have power to relax this rule in special cases, when the Probationary Assistant Superintendent of Police is likely to make a good police officer. (2) The rules governing the probation and seniority of Deputy Superintendents of Police are contained in Appendix 12.1. [(3) Seniority :- The Seniority inter se of persons appointed to posts in each cadre of a service shall be determined by the length of continuous service on such post in that cadre of the service : Provided that in the case of persons recruited by direct appointment, who join within the period specified in the order of appointment or within such period as may be extended from time to time by the appointing authority subject to a maximum of four months from the date of order of appointment, the order of merit deter- mined by the Commissioner or the Board, as the case my be, shall not be dis- turbed : Provided further that in case a person is permitted to join the post after the expiry of the said period of four months in consultation with the Commission or the Board, as the case may be, his seniority shall be determined from the date he joins the post : Provided further that in case any person of the next selection has joined a post in the cadre of the concerned Service before the person referred to in the preceding proviso, joins, the person so referred shall be placed below all the persons of the next selection, who join within the time specified in the first proviso : Provided further that in the case of two or more persons appointed on the date, their seniority shall be determined as follows :- (a) A person appointed by direct appointment shall be senior to a person appointed otherwise; 1. Inserted vide Punjab Govt. Gaz. LSP III dated 12-2-1963. Appointments and Enrolments 365 (b) A person appointed by promotion shall be senior to a person appointed by trans- fer ; (c) In the case of persons appointed by promotion or transfer, the seniority shall be determined according to the seniority of such persons in the appointments from which they were promoted or transferred ; and (d) In the case of persons appointed by transfer from different cadres, their seniority shall be determined according to pay, preference being given to a person who was drawing a higher rate of pay in his previous appointment, and if the rates of pay drawn are also the same, then by their length of service in these appoint- ments and if the length of service is also the same, an older person shall be senior to younger person. Note :- Seniority of persons appointed on purely provisional basis or on ad hoc basis shall be de- termined as and when they are regularly appointed keeping in view the date of such regular appointment.]1 Rule 12.3 12.3. Direct Appointments of Inspectors and Assistant Sub-Inspectors. - Except as provided in Rules 12.1 and 12.4, direct appointments shall not be made except in the rank of Inspector, prosecuting Sub-Inspector and Assistant Sub- Inspector. Such appoint- ments in the rank of Inspector and Assistant Sub- Inspector may be made up to a maximum of ten per cent and twenty-five per cent of vacancies, respectively. Rule 12.3-A 12.3-A. Appointment of Urdu Stenographers. - Appointment to the special posts of Urdu stenographers is made in the rank of Assistant Sub-Inspector by the Deputy Inspec- tor-General of Police, Criminal Investigation Department, Punjab. These appointments are governed by the rules contained in Appendix 12.3-A. Rule 12.4 12.4. Sergeants - appointment of. - Sergeants shall be appointed by Superintendents of Police or the Assistant Superintendent, Government Railway Police, on consideration of the recommendations of a selection board, to fill vacancies occurring in the Districts of the Punjab, the Railway Police or Delhi Province. Applications for appointment as Sergeant from Europeans and Anglo-Indians who are natural born British subjects shall be addressed to the Inspector-General, who will enter, in a list of accepted candidates to be maintained by him, the particulars of those applicants, whose physique, education and status is suitable. Note. - British soldiers transferred to the Indian Army Reserve in India may be appointed on pro- bation as Sergeant or Inspector of Police, if otherwise qualified. On confirmation in these posts they will be discharged from the Reserve. The date of confirmation must be commu- nicated to the Officer-in- charge. Records, of the man concerned in Great Britain, to whom also his certificate of service (A.F.B.-108) must be sent. British Army reservists serving in the police are not liable to be recalled to the army for any purpose. (Authority :- Secretary, Army Department’s letter No. A-41236 - 1 (A.G.-6) of 1st April, 1927, to all local Governments). Rule 12.5 12.5. Applications for direct appointment as Inspector, Sergeant and Assistant Sub-Inspector. - Applications for direct appointment in the rank of Inspector, Sergeant and Assistant Sub-Inspector will be received and acknowledged as submitted, but no cor- respondence will be undertaken with applicants, nor will they be told whether they have been accepted as candidates or not. When appointments are to be made, pending appli- 1. Substituted vide Punjab Govt. Notification No. G.S.R. 14/C.A.V./61/Ss.7 and 46/Amd.(22)/2003 dated 28.2.2003. 366 Punjab Police Rules, 1934 Volume 2, cations will be considered and those applicants whom it is desired to call before a selec- tion board will be informed at least a month before the assembling of the board. Rule 12.6 12.6. Qualifications for direct appointment as Inspector or Assistant Sub- Inspec- tor. - (1) Applications for direct appointment in the rank of Inspector or Assistant Sub-Inspector shall, at the discretion of the Inspector-General and range Deputy Inspec- tors-General, respectively, be referred to the Superintendent of the applicant’s home district for report in Form 12.6(1).