Monday, Jun 17, 2013, 2:11 IST | Agency: DNA
dna had reported 8,000 cops were yet to enrol for the card
In an attempt to avoid a major embarrassment, the Pune police commissioner Gulabrao Pol hurriedly approached the Unique Identification Number (UID) centre at the commissionerate for his biometric test.
An Aadhar Card is mandatory for police personnel to get their monthly salary.
Interestingly, Pol himself had issued an order last week asking his subordinates to enrol for the UID card by the end of this month. He had also warned them of stringent action if they fail to do so.
Even though the UID card is mandatory for getting monthly salary, as many as 8,000 policemen out of total strength of 8,500 including top brass officers of the city police do not have the card. dna had reported about this in its report on June 11.
Sources with the police said, “Pol had come to the photography department at the UID centre on Thursday afternoon. He is the first senior officer to have completed the procedure.”
Officers in the rank of additional commissioner of police, deputy commissioner of police (DCP), assistant commissioner of police (ACP) and police inspector haven’t enroled for their UID cards.
Speaking to dna, additional commissioner of police (administration) Abdur Rehman said, “The commissioner himself enrolled for the card on Thursday. We have strictly instructed the officers to complete the procedure. We expect all policemen to enrol for the card by the end of this month.”
To make the process easier for the policemen, the top brass police have decided to start UID centres at the Pune police commissionerate headquarters at Swargate and Pimpri.