Disaster response training programme launched

Master trainers at the Emergency Services Academy will impart training

LAHORE: National Highways and Motorways Police (NHMP) Inspector General Aamir Zulfiqar Khan and Punjab Emergency Service (Rescue 1122) Director General Dr Rizwan Naseer launched the Community Actions for Disaster Response Training Programme for instructors and officials of the NHMP.

Speaking on the occasion, Khan said that it was the top priority of the NHMP to provide assistance to emergency victims of road accidents on national highways and motorways. Due to honest practices and professional approach, the NHMP has earned a good name all over the world, he added.



The inspector general said officers and instructors of training schools of motorways police will be trained on professional lines on first aid and fire safety by master trainers of Rescue 1122 at the Emergency Services Academy. He said that in most of the situations, law enforcement officers are the first responders who not only manage the incident site but they can also minimise the damage while utilising their basic but essential emergency management skills.

“All officers and instructors of motorways police will be trained as ‘master trainers’ who will in turn coach the remaining officers and officials of the motorways police. The objective is to achieve greater public service,” he added.

Dr Naseer said that Rescue 1122 and motorways police are two sister organisations and citizens respect them because they help victims without any discrimination. “Rescue 1122, in collaboration with national highways, is already managing accidents and now with the assistance of motorways police, we will manage road accidents on motorways too.”



The director general said experts and master trainers of Emergency Services Academy will impart basic training of emergency management through Basic Life Support Programme and Community Actions for Disaster Response Training Programme to the trainers and instructors of motorways in the initial stages. Later on, he said that district emergency officers of relevant districts will further impart training to the instructors of schools of motorways in Punjab.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 17^th, 2018.