HYDERABAD, Nov 19: City police has been reshuffled without taking DPO Hyderabad on board and ahead of general elections, told a reliable source in Police Department to Dawn on Monday.

A list was issued late Sunday night of transfer and posting, described a routine procedure and nothing more.

The Supervising Police Officers (SPOs) of Market, Phulelli and Site and the SHOs of Phulelli, Pinyari, Site, Qasimabad, Hali Road had been replaced with other officers.

Yousuf Pathan, Aijaz Bhatti and Mukhtiar Solangi will now be SPOs Market, Phulelli and Site, respectively.

The transfers were approved in a meeting of the RPO and the DIG, Hyderabad and attended by the DPO Hyderabad, Imran Shaukat.

Sources said it doesn’t mean the DPO was taken on board. Actually the names had been finalised earlier by two officials and with the DPO having no say in it.

Since election schedule was to be announced in next 48 hours and transfers would be banned, the police hierarchy ordered these postings keeping in view political recommendations as well.

MEDICAL CAMP: Department of Physiology, University of Sindh organised a free medical camp and screening of Hepatitis-B and C and other tests in Sain Dino Mallah village on Monday with the purpose to carry out research and create awareness and counselling and undertake preventive measures against the spread of diseases.