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Reddy
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All India Prison Officers Association
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CHAPTER XXVII
STAFF DEVELOPMENT
Prison Cadre
i) Executive.
ii) Custodial/Guarding.
iii) Technical: Technical Supervisors and Instructors borne on prison
establishment.
iv) Ministerial: From Administrative Officer down to the Lower
Division Clerk.
v) Class IV Government Servant: As per the nomenclature in each
state.
Note
i) The recommendations with regard to direct recruitment and
promotion quota have been made to ensure that deserving
persons, with requisite qualification training, experience, and
professional competence, are available in the service at all
levels and that they get at least three promotions during the
entire span of their service.
Service Conditions
Uniform
27.16. Uniform should be prescribed for all custodial and executive
staff, including the Inspector General of Prisons. Badges of rank for all
uniformed cadres in the prison service should be similar to that in the
police service.
Service Board
Probation period
27.21. During, and at the end of the probation period, the probationer
should be evaluated on the following points:
a) Physical fitness and capacity for physical endurance and hard-
work.
b) Courage and leadership.
c) Interest evinced in work.
d) Efficiency.
e) Attitude towards the public, senior personnel, colleagues,
subordinates and inmates.
f) Capacity for correctional work.
g) Character and integrity.
Confirmation
27.25. For being confirmed in service, the probationer should fulfill the
following conditions:
a) Passing various tests and examinations during the
training period.
b) Successful completion of the probationary period.
c) Passing the departmental examinations.
Seniority
Promotions
Transfer
Hours of Work
Holidays
Housing
Medical Facilities
27.42. The following medical facilities should be extended to the staff
and their families:
Educational Facilities
Miscellaneous Facilities
Rewards
Pension
Staff meetings
Staff Training
(ii) Making them conscious of their responsibilities, and the role they
have to play in a Welfare State.
Training Institutes
27.70. Training of staff should be taken up at three levels: State, Regional, and
National.
(i) For training of security and ministerial staff, a training school should be
set up in each State by the State Government. Smaller States and
Union Territories can avail the training facilities of the training schools
of neighbouring States
(ii) For training of executive staff Regional Institutes of Correctional
Administration should be set up.
(iii) A National Academy of Correctional Administration should be
established by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India under
the control of BPR&D to cater to the training needs of supervisory staff
and other senior officers concerned with planning and policy
formulation. When the Indian Prisons and Correctional Service is
constituted, this academy would meet the training needs of the
members of that service
Functions
27.72. Only qualified persons with an aptitude for training and teaching
should be posted at these institutions.
27.73. Directors of Regional Institutes of Correctional Administration should
be from the Prisons and Correctional Service and should be of the rank of
Additional Inspector General of Prisons. Principals of State level training
schools should be of the rank of Superintendent of Central Prisons.
27.76. Proper literature should be prepared for meeting the training needs of
various categories of personnel of the Department of Prisons and Correctional
Services.
Training courses:
(a) Initial basic training at the Training School/ Institute for one
year.
(b) After the successful completion of basic in training the
trainee officers should be posted for duration of six months
for practical training in various branches of institutional
management at a Central Prison in their respective
States/Union Territories.
(c) On completion of practical training, the trainee officers
should be given independent charge of the post for which
they have been recruited, for a period of six months.
ii) Serving officers, who have had no opportunity to get the initial
training as stated in sub-rule (a), shall undergo a training course
for three months. For such officers, placement for practical
training and holding of independent charge as stated in sub-rules
(b) and (c) will not be necessary.
vi) All newly recruited and untrained serving warders shall undergo
an initial basic training course for six months. During this period
they will be given practical training in every aspect of
institutional management.
Discipline
27.80. The trainees will wear the prescribed uniform during the
training period.
Library-journal-recreational facilities
27.83. Training schools should have a good library and reading room
facilities. Provision for purchase of books and periodicals, should be
made in the annual budget of the institution.
27.88. In order to keep the officers and men in good shape, the
training given at the training school in drill, parades, musketry,
unarmed combat, cane-drill and mob-dispersal drill should be
continued at the institution also. Particular attention should be paid to
games. Efforts should be made to instill interest and enthusiasm in the
personnel by the introduction of new items and methods of training.
Opportunities should be provided to stimulate initiative, intelligence,
independent judgement and resourcefulness among the personnel.
Staff Welfare
Welfare Committee
Welfare Fund
Welfare Unit
27.98. In large institutions there will be a separate staff unit which will
attend to all aspects of welfare work such as staff canteen, cooperative
society, etc.
Welfare benefits
27.99. The following benefits will be provided to the personnel out of the
welfare fund:
i) Relief in the case of sudden illness.
ii) Medical aid where more than ordinary medical help is required and
which is beyond the economic capacity of the staff member.
iii) Aid for the education of children of the staff.
iv) Facilities to family members of the staff for running cottage industries
and handicrafts like sewing, spinning, manufacture of matches, etc.
v) Reservation of seats in hostels and educational institutions for children
of staff members.
vi) Staff canteen.
vii) Recreational and cultural activities.
viii) Staff club.
ix) Staff libraries.
x) Staff sports, institutional and inter-institutional fixtures, etc.
27.100. A proper forum should be provided at the institutional and the State
level for prison personnel to ventilate their grievances common to the entire
service/cadre and to hold meaningful discussions for their redressal.
Note: Detailed rules for the collection and operation of this fund should be
embodied in the prison manual of each State.