Perception of Jammu and Kashmir police personnel about promotion: a zonal study

Police consists of human beings and not machines. The efficiency and effectiveness of any organization depends upon its human resources as they are the most important and active factors of production thus human resources to be handled very carefully with a purpose to motivate them. Promotion is one of the vital HRD practices which has a direct implication on the motivation level of employees working in organizations like police. The fairness of the promotion determines whether or not the organization will be able to retain the available reservoir of talented and experienced manpower. It is only a highly motivated police force which can tackle the law and order and the new emerging threats in terrorism hit states like Jammu and Kashmir.