26 August, Biratnagar. After the failure of many police officers, the staff course of Nepal Police is going to be revised.
Under the staff course, the police headquarters has started homework to modify the course itself after being selected less than the prescribed quota in the Police Leadership and Staff Course (PLSC). For this, the Police Headquarters has formed a 7-member committee under the leadership of Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Vishwa Adhikari.
Central Spokesperson of Nepal Police and DIG Abinarayan Kafle also said that the committee has been formed according to the preparation of the course revision.
According to the preparation of the course modification, the work has started by forming a committee. Now the rest of the work will proceed only after the committee submits its report," said Kafle, the spokesperson, to Online Khabar. According to spokesperson Kafle, the committee was formed on August 17. The committee has been given 15 days time.
The committee will study the staff college course within 15 days and submit a report with its opinion to the police headquarters. After that, it is said that the course will be revised and it will be confirmed that what subjects will be added or reduced during the revision. Due to the formation of the committee, the admission process of the new batch has also been stopped.
Within a year of the official opening of the Staff College Course, the police head office has reached the stage of course modification. In 2082 Baisakh, in the presence of the then Home Minister Ramesh Akhtar, a program was held at the Police Club Bhrikutimandap and the staff college course was inaugurated.
This course was also considered as a dream project within the Nepal Police. The staff college course, which was started after nearly 20 years of efforts, has now reached a state of revision in less than a year. The main reason for this is connected with the failure of many examinees. To study the staff college course, an entrance exam is taken initially.
There is an entrance exam in November, now the police officer is carrying a book to study or going to the flood rescue, the police themselves are in a traumatized situation on the one hand. And on the other hand, it has been seen that many officers fail due to not being able to study.
"We are trying to make some changes so that this does not happen, now the study is being done," says a source from the police headquarters. After passing the entrance exam, those candidates can take the staff college course. At a time, a quota of 35 people is decided and the staff college course is studied.
However, in the police staff college, after failing the entrance exam, less than the prescribed quota have been taking the staff college course. For the first time, 131 police officers appeared for the entrance exam when there was a quota of 35 people. At that time, only 17 people passed the entrance exam, half of the prescribed quota, so only 17 people took the staff college course despite the quota of 35 people.
In the second lot, 89 staff participated in the college entrance exam, but only 15 passed the entrance exam. They are currently studying the Staff College course.
According to Police Leadership and Staff Course's Entrance Test Operation Order 2081, a police officer can take the entrance test only 3 times. After failing even for the third time, they are not allowed to take the entrance exam. It is very difficult for a police officer who does not pass staff college to become DIG. They have to go home through SSP.
Since many candidates have failed in the entrance exam taken twice and they will be able to take the entrance exam only three times, the course of the entrance exam is going to be modified. The staff college course has been implemented in Nepal Army and Armed Police Force, but in Nepal Police, it has just started after a long homework.
From 2060, homework was done about holding a staff college course in the police. After 15 years, its curriculum was approved in 2075. Even after that, after 20 years of continuous homework, the staff college course was officially started in Nepal Police.
With the implementation of this course, it is said that promotion will be transparent and predictable and there will also be a reduction in salary and fees. In order to reach the upper level, you have to pass the staff college course, so the competition will be less and the competition will be healthy.
The police bill also mentions that SPs and SSPs who have not passed the staff college course will be placed in the second promotion list. After the implementation of the staff college, arrangements have been made so that 60 percent of the Superintendents of Police (SP) will only pass the staff college.
40 percent will be promoted based on seniority and performance evaluation. Similarly, in Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), 80 percent of the quota of staff college passers have been placed. The remaining 20 percent will be promoted from other quotas.
In the Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), 100% of the staff should have passed the college. According to which, to become a DIG, it is mandatory to pass the Staff College. Even in the Armed Police Force, Staff College was already made mandatory to become a DIG. Along with this, even police officers who have not passed staff college cannot reach the leadership.
Due to this, it is said that even to be eligible for DIG promotion, staff college course is required, competition will be healthy and good officers will reach the leadership level as well. This course has been implemented by those who have joined the police inspector (inspector) in 2070. As the service period is completed for 10 years, staff can take college course.
Since police officers have to work in many fields, they do not have time to study and when many officers fail the entrance exam, their careers will also be affected. Earlier, 20 DSPs filed a petition in the Supreme Court questioning the legality of the staff course. The Supreme Court dismissed the writ on 13 December 2082.
The joint bench of Supreme Court Judge Nahkul Subedi and Sunil Kumar Pokharel said, "To the extent that the issues of organizational reform do not clearly violate the law, it cannot be considered that they have affected individual rights or expectations."
Adhikari is a Biratnagar-based correspondent of Online Khabar.
