‘Model city’: Traders assured of security

ICCI president demands representation in reconciliation bodies

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad Police Inspector General (IG) Tariq Masood Yasin has said that every effort will be made to ensure security and peace in the capital.

While addressing traders at the Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) here on Monday, the top cop said that Islamabad would be made a model city in terms of security and peace. He said that the business community was playing a crucial role for national economy and the police would take all possible steps to provide them a conducive environment for growth of business activities.

Yasin said that many initiatives were under way to improve security in markets, industrial areas and across the city, and asked the traders to be part of the initiative to make it result-oriented.

The IG said that the Islamabad Police also wanted to introduce community policing to provide people-friendly police service. He said that reconciliatory committees would be set up at police stations and traders would be given proper representation.

The top cop said that his office was open for everyone and traders’ representative could visit his office for redressal of their problems related to security. He also said that people could approach him through social media and he would try his best to resolve their issues.

ICCI President Atif Ikram Sheikh demanded that reconciliation committees at every police station should be revived to resolve issues facing the traders. He said that in the past, police and market unions had signed an agreement under which police were supposed to contact market union representatives before taking action against a trader if wanted for a probe.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 31^st, 2016.