TN cops returning from maternity leave to get posting in kin’s districts: CM Stalin
It may be recalled that after capturing power in 2021, the DMK government enhanced the period of maternity leave for its employees from nine months to one year.
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CHENNAI: The women police personnel returning from maternity leave would be able to choose posting for three years in districts where their parents or kin of their husbands live by exempting their seniority, announced Chief Minister MK Stalin on Friday.
Speaking after distributing the President's Medal and Union Home Ministry medals at a function in Rajarathinam Stadium, Stalin, who also handles the Home Department, referred to the one-year maternity leave and said the women officials have been raising the issue of facing difficulties in attending to their children after returning from leave.
"The government has accepted their demand and decided to provide transfer for three years to women officials returning from maternity leave in districts where their parents or the kin of their husbands live by exempting their seniority," he said.
Noting the significant role that women personnel play in resolving the crimes against women and children, Stalin said special training would be provided to enhance their skills in handling such crimes, mainly cybercrimes and women kidnapping (trafficking) cases.
“You must function not only as a department reducing crimes, but preventing crimes. Our state must emerge as one devoid of crimes, drugs, and sexual offences,” he said.
The chief minister stressed that criminals must be brought to books immediately and convicted quickly. “Not just senior officers and me, but every official must have that resolve.
If every official decide that she/he won’t allow any crime to take place in her/his jurisdiction, there would be zero crimes," he said.
