Transfer policy needs review

I REFER to the letter “Civil Service must remain neutral” (The Star, June 6). Indeed, the existing policy in the deployment of senior officers from the Federal Civil Service to hold top administrative posts in certain states is already an inherently conflict-prone model.

These officers fill the most powerful and influential posts in the states concerned – state secretary, state financial officer and the district officers, to name a few. More crucially, there are also indispensable members of various state committees with the state secretary and the state financial officer in attendance at the state executive council meetings with almost complete access to every important document.