Food for Thought: Odisha’s Keonjhar police starts a canteen with a theme on cops in Bollywood

ODISHA’s Keonjhar has a unique canteen now. Named as Cops Bollywood Canteen, this open air canteen inaugurated recently in Reserve Police Line of Keonjhar, has a theme on police in Bollywood, possibly the first of its kind where food, cops and Bollywood go hand-in-hand. IPS Association in a social media post has thanked Superintendent of Police of Keonjhar for creating this hangout place for police personnel to de-stress themselves. Some of the characters choose n in the canteen include…

Ex-IPS Satya S. Tripathi appointed as head of New York office of UN Environment; IPS Association says, this shows “diversity of talent in IPS”

Satya S Tripathi (Photo courtesy: Twitter)

Satya S. Tripathi, a former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and the one who has been serving in the United Nations since 1998, was appointed as Assistant Secretary-General and head of the New York office of the United Nations Environment Programme. UN secretary general António Guterres announced Tripathi’s appointment earlier this week. IPS Association, while congratulating former officer, added how Tripathi's appointment is an “affirmation of the diversity of talent in IPS”, according to a…

IPS Association’s DNA jibe creates row; “Let’s not a friendly cricket match turn into a DNA test”, IAS Association retorts

Victorious UP IPS cricket team (Courtesy: Twitter)

A FRIENDLY cricket match between IAS XI and IPS XI in Lucknow during the weekend created a row after the IPS Association attributed its officers’ victory to its "DNA", something which the IAS Association did not take very kindly. It all began after the IPS XI trashed IAS XI by 9 wickets in a friendly match played during the IAS Week in Lucknow. IAS Week in UP is a regular event, and possibly is the largest of this kind in India. But the IPS Association posted this controversial tweet:

IPS Association refutes media report; says “IPS officers welcome challenges”

THE association of the Indian Police Service (IPS) officers on Tuesday said that its members, all IPS officers, “welcome challenge” while refuting a media report saying that the IPS officers avoid joining the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) as DIGs because “there is little scope for cushy postings at its Delhi headquarters, challenging field positions and rigours of daily operations.” Calling the analysis…

Delhi wakes up to a chocking blanket of smog, but the police personnel on duty brave the situation

ON TUESDAY, the national capital Delhi found itself under a choking blanket of smog, with levels of the fine pollutants known as PM 2.5 reaching over 700 as against 300 which itself the authorities call hazardous. But the traffic police in Delhi has no options but to be at the streets to perform their duties. The IPS Association thanked Delhi traffic police by tweeting the following:

1983 batch IPS Neelmani Raju becomes Karnataka's first ever woman top cop

Neelamani N Raju, 1983 batch IPS officer, was on Tuesday appointed as the Director General of Police (DGP) of Karnataka, thereby becoming the first ever woman police chief in the state. She succeeds RK Dutta, who served as the DGP for 10 months, before retiring on Tuesday, ending speculations that he might get a three months long extension. IPS Association took to Twitter to say:

“Please don't take my tears as a sign of weakness”: IPS officer Ms Charu Nigam

IN YET another instance of Netagiri, an MLA in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur on Monday humiliated a young woman Indian Police Service officer in front of TV cameras, forcing her to reduce into tears. IPS Association in a tweet says: “Condemn incident against ASP #Gorakhpur. If interference in law enforcement goes unpunished, the ability of police to protect people gets eroded”. Here are the 10 developments about IPS Charu Nigam getting emotional and how she responded later by saying that "Meri aansuon ko meri kamzori na samajhna” (Please don't take my tears as a sign of weakness”) 10 developments here below: 

IPS association bats for arrested IPS R Rajamarthandan in a unique case where the complainant is also an IPS

IPS officers’ association is miffed at the way 2006 batch IPS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre — R Rajamarthandan was suspended and arrested on the charge of giving away “classified” information to an RTI applicant. The Association said, the "action taken against him (the IPS officer) is disproportionately high and harsher than the usual response in such cases”. The IPS officer, who was working as the special superintendent of police (SSP) in the CID and had also handled probe in a number of sensitive cases including much-talked about Louis Berger bribery case, was charged with…

IPS Association reiterates demands of pay parity with IAS; adds that DoPT is sitting over file after MHA's nod

“Quantum of pay is never a consideration for IPS officers, but they expect that their importance to the governance should not get undermined through lower emolument structure compared to others in the civil service”. If the resolution of the IPS Association’s general body meeting, released on Sunday, is any indication, the IPS officers have reiterated their demand of pay parity with “others in civil services” — the others being none other than the IAS. Currently, IAS and…

Who will succeed Rakesh Asthana? Gujarat IPS association to name its president soon

Rakesh Asthana, IPS

ON MAY 5 and 6, senior police officers of Gujarat will attend a workshop at the Directorate of Forensic Science (DFS), Gandhinagar, and if media reports turn correct,  the police officers will also discuss who could be the successor of Rakesh Asthana as the president of IPS Association, Gujarat. The need to fill up the post of the state IPS Association chief arose when Asthana resigned after…