Police officials are double minded on the question of recovering a police vehicle from an OSD senior superintendent of police (SSP) after several orders were issued to police inspector concerned over legal compulsion and then withdrawn due to favouritism. The police’s was tested after police high command directed them to take back official vehicles from all officers who are currently OSDs, on leave, suspended from duties or serving as DPOs. But the situation arose when a Lahore Police Transport Wing inspector was called and snubbed by PSP officers after he recovered a car. The inspector was told to return the vehicle to the officer’s families with complete protocol and after offering a verbal excuse. Recovery inspectors were sandwiched between the two interests. Speaking to Pakistan Today, Inspector Babar Ansari said he does not understand whether he acted in right or wrong; since he received two orders. First he was ordered to seize a vehicle. Then he was asked to return the vehicle.
He said it was a joke on his rank, duty and the orders of the police high command. He said he could not understand the affection of PSP officers for their OSD PSP colleague SSP Rana Jabbar. According to sources, Babar went to the Jabbar’s house to recover an official vehicle under the use of Jabbar’s family despite the fact Jabbar was abroad on a personal trip. Babar despite the refusal of Jabbar’s family confiscated the vehicle and was shifting it to the police lines when he was stopped from doing so, with no consideration to the fact that he was following the SP concerned’s orders. Sources said the inspector was not only snubbed by Lahore police officials but forced to return the vehicle to the family with honour. SP Headquarters Athar Waheed confirming the incident said Rana Jabbar was out of country and the vehicle was in the use of his family. He said the inspector was stopped to facilitate Jabbar’s family.