While chairing a meeting held at the Central Police Office (CPO) on Monday, Punjab Inspector General (IG) Police Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera directed the department to check all vehicles and persons crossing inter-provincial check-posts. The IG also directed prompt action to be taken against persons unable to prove their identity. He further said that daily staff briefings should be ensured for a vigilant search of vehicles and people, especially at check-posts in Attock, Mianwali, Bhakar, and Rawalpindi.
Officials serving on all such check-posts should be sensitised about the importance of their duty and they should be made to realise that even a little negligence could cause a huge disaster, the IG said.
Addressing the additional inspector general (AIG), the IG said that strict action should be taken against the DSPs and SHOs who did not contact complainants in time in response to the complaints registered through the 8787 complaint centre.
The IG further added that the AIG Complaints should personally monitor the progress on complaints received through 8787 on daily basis and a weekly performance report should be submitted to him as well.
While briefing the meeting, Additional IGP PHP Amjad Javed Saleemi shared that 31 stolen vehicles and motorcycles were recovered during checking on inter-provincial check-posts from January 1 tp February 19.
One most-wanted criminal was also arrested from the Mianwali check-post. He further said that all inter-provincial check-posts were being monitored online in the Central Police Office where the performance of officials and their behaviour with the public was particularly being monitored. “This is why there are very little complaints against personnel deployed on these check-posts,” he said.
The IGP directed the AIG monitoring to personally receive a daily report regarding the performance of personnel deployed on these check-posts and to submit fortnightly reports to him regularly. Officials with excellent performance should be encouraged on every level, the IG said.
Additional IGP Operations and Investigation Arif Nawaz, Additional IGP Punjab Highway Patrol (PHP) Amjad Javed Saleemi, Additional IGP Welfare and Finance Shoaib Dastgir, DIG Operations Punjab Aamir Zulfiqar Khan, DIG IT Shahid Hanif, AIG Development Kamran Khan, AIG Operations Waqar Abbasi, AIG Logistics Humayun Bashir Tarar, AIG Monitoring Abdul Ghaffar Qaisrani, and AIG Complaints Syed Khurram Ali also attended the meeting.
