Kathmandu, June 10

Though the Ministry of Home Affairs issued a circular to Nepal Police and Armed Police Force on April 13, directing them to recall within seven days all police personnel deputed for purposes other than security, some former senior police officials are still found to have been keeping orderlies.

The circular was issued to security agencies after the line ministry received a number of complaints about the misuse of cops as orderlies, domestic help and personal security officers by some ‘incumbent or former high-level officials’, who are not facing security threats from any group.

According to a list provided by a MoHA source, former AIG Kalyan Timisina has three constables as his domestic help. Similarly, former AIGs Bam Bahadur Bhandari and Madhu Pudasaini have three constables each, while an ASI and three constables are working in the house of former IGP Achyut Krishna Kharel.

The list shows that former AIG Rajendra Singh Bhandari has three constables as his orderlies. Former DIGs Surendra Pal and Bir Sharan Thapa have one constable each.

The 83-point ‘Home Administration Reform Act Plan’ issued by Minister of Home Affairs on April 2 had stated that all police personnel deputed for purposes other than security would be recalled by mid-May. The MoHA source said it would do the needful to recall the cops still being used as domestic help as soon as possible.

Though former high-level officials request for police personnel on the pretext of security threat, most of them are used as cooks, drivers, attendants and for other private purposes. If any former official faces a security threat, s/he may be entitled to cops as security guards through the concerned district administration officer.

No law authorises the use of cops for non-policing purposes.

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