National Assembly Deputy Speaker Faisal Karim Kundi on Tuesday directed the ICT Police DIG (Security) to immediately involve all police personnel into the interrogation of theft cases in parliament lodges and conduct intelligence profiling of the staff deputed there.
Chairing a meeting in the Parliament House on Tuesday, he directed the authorities to deploy additional staff to check the theft instances and entry of unauthorised persons into the precincts of lodges. Kundi reprimanded the Capital Development Administration and Islamabad Capital Territory Police for their failure to prevent theft cases in Parliament Lodges.
He directed the CDA and the ICT Police to immediately take stringent measures to prevent reoccurrence of such cases.
Officers of the CDA and ICT Police apprised the meeting about the pace of ongoing investigation regarding theft of electronic and other items from the apartments of parliamentarians. They said employees of the CDA were being interrogated and the investigation would conclude soon and all those found responsible would be taken to task.
The additional secretary (cabinet) said occurrence of such incidents in such a high profile area was regrettable. He suggested for involving police personnel into interrogation since safety and security of the premises fall into the mandate of ICT Police. He also suggested for regular intelligence profiling of all the personal staff of parliamentarians and CDA staff on regularly basis besides transferring all the existing CDA personnel who have completed three years of their service in Parliament Lodges.
Kundi directed the ICT DIG security to immediately involve all police personnel into interrogation of theft cases, conduct intelligence profiling of the staff besides deployment of additional staff to check the theft instances and entry of unauthorised persons into the precincts of lodges.
He directed them to keep the National Assembly’s Secretariat posted on the progress of the investigation.
Meanwhile, the CDA was directed to serve notices to the unauthorised occupants of servant quarters in lodges and subsequently evict them from said quarters. He also directed the CDA to install additional CCTV surveillance cameras for proper monitoring of the premises.
Kundi suspects police involvement in thefts at parliament lodges
