NPC interviews to promote ASPs

by Jayampathy Jayasinghe

The National Police Commission (NPC) will hold interviews soon to promote Assistant Superintendents of Police to the rank of Superintendent of Police shortly, a spokesman for the National Police Commission told the "Sunday Observer" .

The NPC has already received several applications and the interviews will be held for the selection of SPs on March 27 and 28. Confirmed ASPs in their posts with an unblemished service record of eight years will be eligible for promotion to the rank of Supdt. of Police grade 2. The applicants will be selected after a viva-voce.

A competitive examination to recruit 17 Probationary Assistant Superintendents of Police (ASPs) will be held after a lapse of seven years. This will be the first occasion where women will be selected as ASPs. Previously women were recruited to fill other vacancies such as Constables and Sub Inspectors.

The NPC had received 1,100 applications for the post of Probationary Asst. Supdt. Police. A new endurance test will be held by the Police Department to test the suitability of candidates. A limited examination to select ASPs will be held for police officers who are graduates or attorneys-at-law.

Meanwhile, the NPC has called upon the IGP to transfer Inspectors and other ranks below who had served at the Parliamentary complex at Kotte for more than five years.

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