Capital police officials to be given new vehicles, work hours reduced from 12 to 8Around 28 cops including inspectors and sub-inspectors (IS) of capital police have appointed as Community Police Officers (CPOs) in jurisdictions of all police stations to effectively control crime and curb anti-social elements along with cooperation of community members and notables of the society.
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Wajid Ali Khan Durrani informed during his address to the policemen on Thursday at National Library. SSP Islamabad Tahir Alam Khan, all zonal superintendents of police (SPs), sub divisional police officers (SDPOs), station house officers (SHOs) of all police stations were also present on the occasion, according to press statement.
Community Police Centers (CPC) will be established under this new system where beat and visitors Books will be kept. The beat book will contain information on important locations in the area of relevant police station while police officers will write down their comments in the visitor books during their visit to CPC. This system would play an effective role in mounting intelligence and vigilance from the grass-root level besides curbing criminal activities, also allowing the residents and the complainants to easily interact with the concerned police officers as the powers would be devolved to the lower level police officials, the IGP said.
The IGP said that proper facilities would be provided to the CPOs while number of patrolling vehicles in Islamabad would be increased soon.
He said sense of responsibility is the basic thing to ensure effective policing and this can only be inculcated through facilitating the police employees. For the same purpose, he said duty timing of police men have been reduced from 12 hours to 8 hours.
Durrani said that police officials must take interest into the investigation of cases and ensure justice with the people. . “My job is to facilitate you, but you will have to prove your worth and make Islamabad police a distinguished force and a role model for other law enforcement agencies,” he maintained. Later, the IGP mingled with the police officials and heard their problems. He issued immediate orders to resolve their problems and also assured them to further facilitation.
