
According to a source inside the Lahore police, this massaging of the data is at the behest of senior officers who seek to hoodwink the general public into believing that the initiatives they had promoted were responsible. This attempt to create a false sense of security serves nobody well. During the course of our investigations numerous people who have been robbed described in detail their experiences post-robbery and their attempts to register the crime(s) committed against them. The police are aware of all complaints that come to them through the Complaint Information Management System and they now appear to be hoist with their own petard. If the police are being deceptive then they harm the credibility that they are supposedly working hard to restore. There is a national mistrust of the police that is long-standing and well-founded. Time and again they are shown to be corrupt and dishonest. Fiddling the crime figures in Lahore may seem relatively small change as corruption goes, but it undermines at a stroke the police credibility. The good work that the police do — and yes they do good work — is devalued. Honesty, goes the saying, is the best policy. Give it a try.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 1st, 2018.
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