Odisha Cops to face flak for not wearing uniform

  • | Friday | 16th November, 2018

"No police personnel should wear plain clothes during enforcement," commissioner of police Satyajit Mohanty said. Significantly, police personnel in the rank of a havildar are not empowered to issue challans to offenders.Personnel in the rank of assistant sub-inspector and above are authorised to levy auch fines. BHUBANESWAR: The commissionerate police have warned cops of departmental action against them if they are found in plain clothes during the execution of various enforcement drives, like crackdown on traffic violators and drink driving, in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack The directive was issued to police stations after a havildar was recently found wearing civil clothing and issuing challans to traffic violators in the Khandagiri area.

BHUBANESWAR: The commissionerate police have warned cops of departmental action against them if they are found in plain clothes during the execution of various enforcement drives, like crackdown on traffic violators and drink driving, in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack The directive was issued to police stations after a havildar was recently found wearing civil clothing and issuing challans to traffic violators in the Khandagiri area. Significantly, police personnel in the rank of a havildar are not empowered to issue challans to offenders.Personnel in the rank of assistant sub-inspector and above are authorised to levy auch fines. "No police personnel should wear plain clothes during enforcement," commissioner of police Satyajit Mohanty said.

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