DCIB undergoes minor surgery

By CT reporter
MANGALORE : A minor surgery has been performed on the District Crime Investigation Bureau (DCIB) with some members dropped and new faces inducted.
Narayan Maniyani, Seetaram, Ashok and Harish Padavinangady have been dropped and they are replaced by Narenda, Sunil Uchil, Balachandra and Shyam Sunder.
As per rules, the DCIB must have an inspector, two su-inspectors or two ASIs and eight head constables. But, by violating the rules, even police constables are inducted.
There is no doubt that many police personnel in the district are eyeing the posts in the DCIB, Anti-Rowdy Squad and the Highway Patrolling Squad -the main reason being that the mere induction into the squads are an easy way to earn more.
Now, the police officials themselves have to answer if the criteria for admission to these squads is their efficiency or political patronage which they enjoy. By the by, sources said while the SP was not that interested in performing a surgery on the DCIB, he was forced to do so following a directive from the IGP.