IG Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera cancels Punjab police official holidays of Eid

Lahore: Inspector General Police of Punjab Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera has cancelled the official holidays of all officers/officials and they will be on duty during the Eid-Ul-Azha. It was also decided that the Search Operations on daily basis will be continued till the last day of the Eid.

in order to review the working of various police departments and the problems being faced by the officers of CTD, Elite, Special Branch, Special Protection Unit, Riverine and border posts, PHP, Traffic, Lahore Police and also formulation of strategy to purchase the new APCs, water canon and helicopter, change of police uniform, an important meeting was held at central police office Lahore today under the chairmanship of .

Addl: IGP Establishment Punjab, Nasim-ul-Zaman, Addl: IGP Operations Punjab, Capt. (R) Arif Nawaz, Addl: IGP Training Punjab, Capt. (R) Usman Khattak, Addl. IGP, Welfare & Finance, Sohail Khan, Addl. IGP Traffic Punjab, Rai Altaf Hussain, Addl. IGP, Special Branch Punjab, Faisal Shahkar, Addl. IGP, Elite Police Force, Muhammad Tahir,  Addl: IGP Legal Punjab, Ali Zulnorain, CCPO Lahore, Capt (R) Ameen Vanis, DIG Headquarters Punjab, Farooq Mazhar, DIG Establishment-I, Azhar Hameed Khokhar, DIG Establishment-II, Nawaz Warraich, DIG Crime, Chaudhary Shafiq Gujjar, DIG Investigation, Muhammad Azam, DIG PHP, Salman Chaudhary, DIG Telecommunication, Tariq Rustam Chohan, DIG SPU, Tariq Nawaz Malik, DIG Welfare, Jan Muhammad, CTO Lahore, Tayyab Hafeez Cheema, AIG Operations, Waqar Abbasi, AIG Logistics, Humayun Bashir Tarar, AIG Legal, Kamran Adil and other senior police officers were also present.

Mushtaq Sukhera directed the Addl: IG training to get help from the Pakistan Army for the advance training of four thousand officials who inducted in PHP for duties at riverine and border posts. The meeting also decided to finalize the training plan for those five thousand officials who will be recruited for special protection unit in Punjab Police very shortly.

The meeting also decided to move a summary to the Government regarding raise in investigation cost upto Rs. 55000.

It was also decided that in future the APCs, Water Cannons and helicopter’s purchase will be made after the approval of the experts of notified technical committees.

In the meeting the rationalization of Punjab Police was also decided under which each district will be provided the force according to the ratio of population and rate of crime of every district.

Computerization and Preparation of inventory of all purchases which were made for Punjab Police, including weapons, equipments, ammunition, vehicles, uniforms etc. was also decided in the meeting.

In the meeting the PPO was told that the new pattern of Police uniform will be produced within two weeks for approval. To evaluate the performance of the newly appointed investigation officers for Homicide units across Punjab, a monthly meeting will be held in CPO. Addl: IGP OPS Punjab Capt. (R) Arif Nawaz told the IGP that for the monitoring of the complaint handling centre (CHC) established in ten police stations of Lahore the monitor in CPO (CHC) has become fully operational.