POLICE SERVICE OF PAKISTAN (COMPOSITIONS, CADRE AND SENIORITY) RULES, 1985

POLICE SERVICE OF PAKISTAN (COMPOSITIONS, CADRE AND SENIORITY) RULES, 1985

[Gazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary, Part II, 23rd October, 1985]

S. R. O. 1033 (l )/85, dated 23rd October, 1985.‑In exercise of the powers conferred by section 25 of the Civil Servants Act, 1973 (LXXI of 1973), the President is pleased to make the following rules, namely

1. Short title and commencement.‑(1) These rules may be called the Police Service of Pakistan (Composition, Cadre and Seniority) Rules,

1985.

(2) They shall come into force at once.

2. Definitions.‑In these rules, unless there is anything repugnant in

the subject or context,‑

(a) "Cadre post" means a post specified in the Schedule ;

(b) "Commission" means the Federal Public Service Commission ;

(c) "Schedule" means the schedule to these rule ;

(d) "Service" means the Police Service of Pakistan referred to in rule 3.

3. Change in nomenclature and composition.‑(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the All‑Pakistan Service (Change in Nomenclature) Rules, 1973, the Police Group in the All‑Pakistan Unified Grades is renamed as the Police Service of Pakistan.

(2) The Police Service of Pakistan shall consist of

(a) persons appointed or deemed to have been appointed to the Police Service of Pakistan in accordance with the Police Service of Pakistan (Com‑

position and Cadre) Rule, 1969 ;

(b) persons, other than those mentioned in clause (a), appointed to the Police Group whose names appeared in the gradation list issued on the 28th August, 1980 and persons appointed in the Police Group after that date but

before the commencement of these rules ; and

(c) persons appointed to the Service in accordance with these rules.

4. Cadre strength.‑(1) The cadre strength of the service shall be as specified in the Schedule.

(2) The President, or a person authorised by him in this behalf, may, from time to time, and the case of posts in connection with the affairs of a Province after consultation with the Governor of the Province remove from

or include any post in the Schedule.

5. Initial appointment.‑(I) Initial appointment to the service against cardre posts in basic pay scale 17 shall be made on the basis of the results of the competitive examinations held for the purpose by the Commission.

(2) Unless the appoicting authority in any case otherwise directs, a person appointed to the Service under sub‑rule (1) shall be appointed to the Service as a probationer in accordance with the rules which the Federal Government may make from time, to time including rules and orders relating to training during probation, and shall be required to undergo such depart­mental training and. pass such departmental examinations as may be specified by the Federal Government or the Government of the Province to which he is allocated.

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6. Appointment of officers of Armed Forces.‑Officers of the Armed Forces of the rank of Captain and Major or equivalent shall be eligible for appointment to the Service in accordance with the procedure laid down by Government and against the cadre posts reserved for them from time to time.

7. Appointment of members of Police cadre of a Province.‑Members of the Police cadre of a Province shall be appointed to the Service on the basis of selection made on the recommendation of the Governor

Provided that appointment of members of the Police cadre of a pro­vince under this rule shall not exceed 40 % of the senior cadre posts in that Province as specified in the Schedule.

8. Appointment by promotion.‑Members of the service shall be eligible for promotion to higher posts in accordance with the Civil Servants (Appointment, Promotion and Transfer) Rules, 1973, and the administra­tive instructions issued from time to time.

9. General.‑(1) A cadre post shall ordinarily be filled by a member of the Service.

(2) Nothing in sub‑rule (1) shall be construed as preventing the posting to a cadre post of a person who is not a member of the Service

Provided that no such person shall be so posted for a period exceeding twelve months except with the previous sanction of the authority competent to make appointment to the post.

10. Liability to service.‑A member of the service shall be liable to serve anywhere in Pakistan in any post and to hold, if he so directed, more than one post at the same.

11. Seniority.‑(1) The member of the Service referred to in clauses (a) and (b) of sub‑rule (2) of rule 3 shall retain the same seniority as is shown in the gradation list as it stood immediately before the commence­ment of these rules.

(2) Persons appointed to the Service in accordance with these rules shall count seniority from the date of regular appointment against a post in the Service subject to the following conditions, namely :‑

(a) persons selected for initial appointment on the basis of the same competitive examination shall on appointment reckon seniority inter se in accordam:e with the merit position obtained in that examination ;

(b) officers of the Armed Forces selected for appointment to a cadre post on regular basis in a batch shall on appointment retain their seniority inter se

Provided that officers of the Armed Forces appointed in basic pay scale 17 in a year shall be treated as senior to probationers appointed i1 the same year on the basis of the competitive examination held by Commission;

(c) members of the police cadre of a particular Province selected in a year shall on appointment to the Service take seniority inter se as in the Provincial cadre and in keeping with that sequence, each such member shall reckon his date of regular appointment to the Service from the day the respective vacancy arose in the senior cadre posts reserved in that Province for such officers as specified in the schedule

Provided that, if the date of regular appointment of officers of two or

more Provinces be the same, their seniority inter se shall be determined on the basis of their date of regular appointment to the post of Superintendent of Police ;

(d) officers selected for promotion in the same batch shall on promo­tion retain their seniority as in the lower post ; and

(e) the general principles of seniority set out in the Establishment Division O. M. No. 1/16/69‑D. II, dated the 31st December, 1970, shall apply in matters not covered by these rules.

12. The Police Service of Pakistan (Composition and Cadre) Rules, 1968 are hereby repealed.