A frightful rise in suicides amongst Delhi Police officers has jolted the highest brass to the core. With complaints of high stress levels among cops, the metropolis Police has set to become a lot of liberal while  sanctioning leaves to its personnel. A decision has been taken that there ought to be no delay in approving leaves for police personnels on occasions like their wedding anniversaries and birthdays of their kids.

According to a senior officer, within the past few months, there are cases where policemen have committed suicide attributable to stress. Two officers of the urban center Police committed suicide within the last 2 months, triggering the necessity to have a lenient view on the leave policy.

Last month, a 45-year-old Delhi Police sub inspector denote with the ATS, allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself at his residence in greater Noida at 1 am. Members of the family of the deceased claim that he was under depression related to work pressure. Yash Pal was posted in the Kalkaji area in south-east Delhi.

"Recently, a sub-inspector committed suicide due to stress and work pressure. On Friday, Special CP welfare issued a circular regarding the rising stress levels in the force.It was noticed that seniors didn't approve leave of juniors even for special functions. We are hopeful that junior staff will get leaves at least on special occasions," an officer stated. The order came into force when Pankaj Kumar Singh, additional DCP (Outer district) issued an order for his district asking officers to not deny leaves to juniors unnecessarily.

"Policing is a job, which demands not only physical alertness but also deep application of mental faculties.The levels of stress in policemen are resultantly observed to be very high. The absence from various social/family functions heightens their stress levels and deteriorates situations. It is therefore directed that all the police personnel working at police stations may be given leave/off on the days of their marriage anniversary and birthdays of their children," Pankaj Singh aforementioned in his letter.

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Appreciating the efforts of the additional DCP, Delhi Police welfare department conjointly issued a letter to all the units asking them to implement identical circular. "The DCP of a district has way in strengthening team spirit and bonding among members.

The same could, as so much as attainable, be replicated in different districts/units," S Vasudeva Rao, Special Commissioner, Welfare, said in his letter on Friday.

•    February: A 45-yr old sub-inspector committed suicide at his residence. Family claims he was depressed attributable to work pressure.
•    January: 33-yr-old sub-inspector committed suicide after shooting a 28-yr-old lady dead in Dwarka. Cops aforementioned Vijendra Kumar was not pleased with his wedding.
•    November, 2015: 30-yr-old ACP allegedly shot himself in Noida sector 100 & wife also tried suicide by jumping off their fourth-floor balcony.