THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The anomalies in the proper implementation of pay revision in the Police Department have left many lower-rung cops high and dry. When top-level police officials in the state have already got the benefits under the pay revision, policemen attached to rural as well as armed police camps are deprived of any benefits, owing to the undue delay. It is mainly constables and head-constables who are facing the ill-effects of the pay revision implementation, which according to them is lagging in an unprecedented manner. “The pay revision was declared in February 2011 based on the Ninth Pay Revision Commission, with retrospective effect from July 2009. The basic pay of the officers was also fixed according to the recommendation in July 2011. However, we are yet to receive the salary arrears from July 2009, that have to be amalgamated with the pension fund”.“The undue delay will have a disastrous effect on the compound interest of the PF as a result of which the officers are expected to suffer huge losses,” the sources said. Prominent organisational associations are also hesitant to take up their cause. The officers who voiced their protests to Express insisted that their identities be kept secret. “We have formally informed the Commandant ourdissatisfaction. The reply we got was that there was not enough ministerial staff in the department to process our papers,” said an officer attached to the Special Armed Police here.The situation is same for the officers of various battalions attached to other armed police camps, including Malabar Special Police and Kerala Armed Police.“Armed police camps are the training camps of police personnel. It is not desirable that they are neglected at the start of their career,” he said.The situation is no different in other parts of the state like Pathanamthitta, Kochi, Thrissur and Palakkad. “The main reason for the undue delay is lack of adequate staff to carry out paper works in the department. In Kochi alone, there are around 1,500 odd policemen who are yet to get their pay revision benefits. “ It’s high time the Home Ministry looked into the issue and sorted it out,” said police officials working in Kochi.According to sources, the sanctioned strength of ministerial staff at the SAP camp here alone is 30, including 24 clerks, four junior superintendents, a manager and an administrative assistant.Among these, six clerical staff are already missing in action, with two of them on long leave, two others under unauthorised absence, one under suspension and another one under maternity leave.The plight of Thiruvananthapuram rural district police is still worse, if sourcescan be believed. “There are only two ministerial staff who are presently with the department to process the papers of over 2,000 personnel in the district,” said a senior police officer under the Nedumangad rural circle.
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