JK Police : police & RTI: JK Police appoints PIOs for quick response to RTI queries

Srinagar, July 3 (PTI) In order to bring transparency and cut short the response time for the applications under RTI, Jammu and Kashmir Police has nominated Public Information Officers (PIOs) at various levels. "The department has in order to curtail the avoidable delay, nominated PIOs at Zonal, Range and District levels, who are under a statutory obligation to dispose off all the applications under RTI pertaining to their respective jurisdictions," a police spokesman said today. He said earlier there was only one PIO for the entire department who was stationed at Police Headquarters. Realising that some delay would at times be caused in supplying information to the applicants, the Director General of State Police Kuldeep Khoda nominated the PIOs so that the information could be supplied to the applicant at the earliest, the spokesman said. Referring to the alleged involvement of some police officers in Jammu-Samba land grabbing scam, the spokesman said there was no question of deliberate suppression of information. "After the news related to land grabbing appeared on February 10 in a Jammu based daily, the Police headquarters immediately asked the Divisional Commissioner, Jammu to go into the details and inform about police action warranted in the case, as it is only the revenue authorities who have land records to verify authenticity of the land grabbing reports," the spokesman said. PTI MIJ TA