Hiring should only be done at the bottom level and a constable should be able to rise to become chief of police.
TORONTO: This is with reference to Dr Azhar Hassan Nadeem’s article, “Ensuring people-friendly policing” (August 7). The writer has missed the most important point about our colonial police system. It is that the police are based on a military pattern. They consist of men and officers. They should only have officers as is the case in the US, Canada and the UK. There should be no direct hiring of assistant sub inspectors and other officers. Hiring should only be done at the bottom level and a constable should be able to rise to become chief of police as in Western countries.
Walayat Malik
Published in The Express Tribune, August 8th, 2013.
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