Chairman National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Qamar Zaman Chaudhry said that the training of investigation officers and prosecutors is NAB’s top priority and the bureau is dedicated to eradicate corruption from national institutions.
Qamar Zaman Chaudhry welcomed the participants for the Training of Trainers (TOT) Course 2016 which will be held for a whole week and reviewed the trainings needs and the importance of capacity building.
He said that this training requires extremely dedicated and highly trained manpower to undertake responsibility and to NAB’s its Human Resource Development is of great importance. Accordingly, a comprehensive yearly training plan for 2016 has been devised to ensure continued professional development of its officers.
He said training cells formed at all regional levels are primarily responsible to liaise and carry out the planned activities in their respective regional bureaus.
He said that T&R division has prepared the Training Programme for 2016 based on regional feedback and input of experts from other law enforcing agencies. The plan prepared by T&R division was then discussed and refined by the high ups of NAB.
He said that 110 incoming investigation officers are being trained at Police Training College Sihala. The course contents have been designed on modern lines and a standardized syllabus for all investigation officers for their capacity building courses has been formulated to ensure quality and uniformity which will help NAB in achieving standard application of SOPs and Laws.
The chairman NAB said that a Digital Forensic Science LAB has been established in NAB Rawalpindi. The Forensic Science LAB has the capacity to have Digital Forensics, Question Documents; Finger prints analysis so that Investigation Officers and Officials and Prosecutors may utilize Forensic LAB facilities in order to investigate cases within stipulated time period as per SOPs/laws.
