Odisha govt compulsorily retires 3 policemen

The Odisha government on Friday compulsorily retired one sub-inspector (SI) and two assistant sub-inspectors (ASI) of police as part of its drive to weed out inefficient and corrupt officers, a top police officer said.

The three policemen were given notice of premature retirement for their doubtful integrity in exercise of power under Rule 71 of Odisha Service Code, said Director General of Police (DGP) B K Sharma.

"The action was in accordance with the state governments 5T policy," Sharma said. Odisha government has adopted 5Ts - Transparency, Teamwork, Technology, Time for Transformation - as its policy.

The DGP said Odisha Police has started identifying the corrupt elements in the system and action is being taken against them.

The cops who have been sent on compulsory retirement are - sub-inspector Banamali Nayak, assistant sub-inspector Birabar Lenka and Kishore Kumar Bag.

A statement issued by Khurda district police said that Nayak has lost credibility as a police .