The Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra on Tuesday passed a slew of directions on police reforms in the country and ordered all states and Union territories to not appoint any police officer as acting Director General of Police. The directions came on a plea of the Centre seeking modification of the judgment rendered in the Prakash Singh case on police reforms. SC directed that states should send names of senior police officers to UPSC for being considered for the top cop job in the state/UTs DGPs or Police Commissioners. The apex court also ruled that any rule or state law on the subject of appointment of police officers "will be kept at abeyance". As per the directions issued the UPSC, in turn, will prepare a list of three most suitable officers and the states will be free to appoint one of them as police chief. The bench also said that it should be ascertained that the officer selected and appointed as DGP, has reasonable period of service left.