Retired cops demand preferential treatment at local police stations

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, December 15

Punjab Police Pensioners Day was celebrated at Red Cross Bhawan here today. Veteran police officials demanded that ‘Salami’ should to be given to retired cops on their cremation, and preferential treatment should be given to them at local police stations.

Having retired from various ranks of the Punjab Police, Charan Singh Bhat, president, Punjab Police Pensioners Welfare Society; conveyed to the Police Commissioner Gurpeet Singh Bhullar; that veterans were not being treated with respect.

Besides, few of the retired cops – DSP Gurdayal Singh; DSP Kartar Singh; DSP Jagir Singh; sub-inspectors, Mohinder Singh, Hardeep Singh and Ratan Lal; were felicitated by the commissioner for their immense contribution to the Punjab Police during their service.

Some of the retired cops regretted that sometimes the government takes more than two to three years to disseminate the benefits and clear the pending bills.

Besides, family members of the martyrs and the deceased cops asked the commissioner to recruit their wards in the Punjab Police.

Amninder Kaur, wife of a veteran constable, Nirmal Singh, who died a few years ago, asked the officials to recruit his son in the police. The Police Commissioner assured her and other veterans that he would help Amninder Kaur.