Friday, September 22 2006 16:45 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today (Sept 22, 2006) directed a slew of measures for reform of the police force in country that includes a minimum tenure for DGPs, IGPs and senior police officials.

A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Y K Sabharwal directed the National Human Rights Commission and the government to consider suggestions given in a PIL filed by former DGP Prakash Singh, to transfer cases of terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering to the CBI within the next four months.

A police complaint authority should be established in which complaints against police officials could be filed, the Bench observed.

Besides a police establishment board should be estalished to fix the minimum tenure and selection procedures for police officials, it added.

The judgement came on a PIL filed by the former DGP seeking police reforms.