Inspector General Police Punjab, Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera on Friday directed to provide four-tier security to all Police Training Colleges and Centres, and to conduct regular combing operations around these training institutes.
Presiding over a meeting at Central Police Office to review security arrangements of police training colleges and centres across the province, he directed to further improve inside and outside patrolling system of Police Training Centres.
He said concerned regional and district police officers should ensure at least two surprise visits a week to check security and brief police officials deployed on security duty about the sensitivity of their responsibilities.
The IGP said monitoring and control rooms of all training centres should be more active and training centres’ in-charge should check security arrangements inside and outside the training centre by making at least three visits in a week in different times at night.
IGP said, police personnel deputed for security of Police training institutes should be fit, active and of not more than 30 years of age. Duty hours should not be more than nine hours and it should be scheduled in three hours duty and three hours rest break, he added.
He said that bullet proof jackets and helmets should be provided on priority basis and security officials and snipers should be deployed on roof-tops of barracks and lecture halls of training institutes.
Regular firing practice of police officials deployed on security duty should be ensured, he said and added that importance should be given to bunkers and vantage points and deployment of LMG armed snipers in these bunkers and vantage points should be ensured.
Automatic weapons and binoculars should be provided to security officials deployed at O.P check posts, he directed.