Additional IG/CCPO Aslam Tareen has initiated departmental action against 7-SHOs, of Lahore for using delaying tactics on applications of the citizen and non registrations of FIRs during the month of August.
The action was taken by the Citizen Feed Back Cell (CFBC) on the feedback obtained from the people who had lodged their complaints with 15 during the period. The cell, established on instructions of the CCPO, headed by SSP Internal Accountability Division (IAD) Shariq Kamal, contacted 2312 people who had lodged complaints with 15 during the preceding month. Of them 2211 informed that legal action had already been taken on their complaints while action on 205 applications was found pending. The CFBC head took notice of the situation and issued instructions to the concerned SHOs to take appropriate legal action on such complaints, on which 101 FIRs were registered and action is under process on 104 applications.
SHOs against whom departmental action has been ordered include SHO Shahdara Inspector Muhammad Sabtain Shah, SHO Tibbi City Inspector Mansoor Ahmed, SHO Shalimar Inspector Naveed Azam, SHO Garden Town Inspector Aamir Saleem, SHO Hanjerwall Inspector Muhammad Ashraf, SHO Data Darbar Sub-Inspector Muhammad Iddrees and SHO Lower Mall Sub-Inspector Mazhar-ul-Hussain. These SHOs were blamed of employing delaying tactics in FIRs registration and of applying wrong sections of law which were subsequently got corrected on intervention of CFBC.
SSP (IAD) Shariq Kamal has warned that in future if any SHO was found guilty of negligence or using delaying tactics, he would not be spared and strict action would be taken against such defaulters. The CFBC would pay spot visits to the police stations where those having complaint of non-registration would be called and handed over with a copy of FIR besides taking action against the SHO concerned for non-registration in cases which merited registration of a case. SSP Shariq Kamal has warned that SHOs found negligent in registration of FIRs would be sent to PC and other districts.
Meanwhile, people kept getting robbed
Robberies took place in different areas of the city on Thursday. Per details, robbers broke into the house of Younis a resident of Baghbanpura, robbed thousands in cash, mobile phones and other valuables at gunpoint and fled.
In another incident, three robbers took a woman hostage and robbed her of Rs 800,000 in cash and 11 tolas of gold at gunpoint, from the area of Tariqabad Kotlakhpat Anchor person named Azam Khaleel was also robbed near his house in Valencia Town. The robbers forcibly took Rs 35000 in cash and a mobile phone from him at gunpoint.
