Patna, Aug 27 (IANS): The Bihar Home Department has directed the state police headquarters to assess the work and physical fitness of all police personnel aged above 50.

It has also directed Superintendents of Police to submit status reports of such police personnel for analysis to the police headquarters.

The SP-rank officers have also given the assignment to test physical fitness and efficiency of the personnel on the ninth of every month, and the future of these personnel will depend on the performance reports.

The police headquarters will analyse reports of every individual police personnel, to recommend whether they should be retained in service or not.

The move has evoked protests, with Mritunjay Kumar Singh, the President of Bihar Policemen's Association, expressing his opposition to the decision.

"It is a conspiracy to throw senior police personnel out. Police personnel aged above 50 years will get victimised in during the preparation of the reports," he alleged.

"We have demanded that the state government rollback the decision. The option to go on agitation is open if the government refuses," Singh added.