Punjab Police to operate by following SOPs to avert model town like incidents:IG Mushtaq Sukhera

Lahore: In order to avert model town incidents, in future, police force should adopt pro-active approach and should perform their duties independently and without any kind of pressure by following the SOPs of operational command.

 This was stated by Inspector General of Police Punjab, Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera during his first ever formal meeting with all sectional heads of Central Police Office, Lahore, today. Addl: IGP Punjab, Sermad Saeed Khan, Addl: IGP CTD, Amin Wains, Addl: IGP Welfare and Finance, Dr. Arif Mushtaq, Addl: IGP R&D, Rai Altaf, Addl: IGP PHP, Suhail Khan, Addl: IGP Training, Capt. (R) Muhammad Usman Khattak, Addl: IGP Traffic, Nasim-uz-Zaman Siddiqui, Commandant Police College, Sihala, Capt (R) Muhammad Zubair, DIG Headquarters Punjab, Muhammad Tahir, DIG PHP, Sulman Chaudhry, DIG Training, Tariq Masood Yasin, DIG Commandant Police College Lahore, Ahmad Mubarik Ahmad, DIG CTD, Muhammad Amir Zulfiqar, DIG Investigation, Ghulam Rasool Zahid, DIG VVIP Security Lahore, Fiaz Ahmad Dev, DIG Monitoring Investigation, Azhar Hameed Khokhar, DIG Telecommunication, Ali Amir Malik, DIG Legal, Azeem Khan Laghari, DIG Traffic Punjab, Rana Iqbal, DIG Security Division Lahore, Sahibzada Shehzad Sultan, AIG Finance, Hussain Habib Imtiaz, AIG Logistics, Sharik Kamal Siddiqui, AIG Admin and Security, Sajjad Hassan Khan Manj, AIG Development, Arsalan Malik, AIG Operations, Waqas Nazir, AIG Career and Planning, Faisal Ali Raja, AIG Discipline, Capt: (R) Romail Akram, AIG Legal, Shafique Gujjar,PSO to IGP Punjab, Tariq Rustam Chauhan, SSP R&D, Kashif Mushtaq Kanjoo, SP Headquarters PHP, Hashmat Kamal and SP Legal, Qaisar Ali Sheikh also present in the meeting.

In the meeting the officers regretted over the model town incident and the reasons behind it were also discussed in detail. The provincial police chief said that he never saw a such incident during his 25 years career. He stated that we should prepare ourselves to meet the future challenges and for the purpose we should go through a strict internal accountability process. He said that the performance of the force at all levels will be regularly monitored and no body will be allowed to misuse his powers.

Moral of the force could only be boosted through commitment, dedication, honesty and professionalism added, the provincial police chief.

Proposals and suggestions regarding the reorganization of anti-roit force, operational command, permanent interaction with the fighting force, discipline and training also reviewed in the meeting.