SHANGLA: Police job candidates, who have passed the recent written and physical tests, have urged the provincial police chief to ensure their early appointment to vacancies here.

They told journalists that the merit list for successful candidates was issued more than a month ago.

Many of those applicants are currently working as coal miners in different parts of the country.

They applied for constable posts and 165 of them passed tests but they have yet to be appointed to vacant positions.

Mahmood Alam, a coal miner from Olandar, told reporters that he passed the test for the constable`s post but hadn`t been appointed yet.

Rehmanullah, a coal miner from Puran, said he was happy to pass thepolice constable recruitment test but uncertainty surrounded his appointment.

He said he and other candidates met local MNA Amir Muqam and his brother MPA, Ibadullah Khan, who promised to speak to the provincial police chief about the matter, but the promise had yet to be fulfilled.

Another candidate, Mushtaq Ahmad, said the police department should notify appointment of successful candidates to vacancies, and demanded intervention by inspector general of police Akhtar Hayat Khan Gandapur, to their relief.

When contacted, district police officer Imran Khan said the successful candidates outnumbered the available posts.

`I will ensure the rule of merit and accommodate the maximum number of successful candidates in the department,` he said.