Kolkata/Midnapore: The police have done away with the process of physical transfer applications to superiors, which were often kept pending for months without reason. The Bengal govt has mandated that such transfer requests be submitted online in Dec. The portal will be open for 30 days that month and the superiors will have to decide in a time-bound manner. The state will make decisions on these transfer requests every March.
Female constables can apply for transfer to home districts after eight years of service while male constables can apply after 15 years. Officers senior to them, like ASI and SI, can also apply for transfers to home districts in the last four years of their service. However, no transfer is possible in assembly segments where the police personnel are voters themselves, although this can be within the same district where they reside.