IG orders to install biometric system at CPO in Karachi

IG gives a 10-day deadline to ensure installation


Our Correspondent September 21, 2018
PHOTO: FILE

KARACHI: Sindh Inspector General of Police Syed Kaleem Imam ordered on Thursday to ensure the installation of a biometric system at the Central Police Office within 10 days.

The provincial police chief was addressing a meeting of Central Police Officer staff officers, which reviewed the management of the CPO’s affairs as well as other steps undertaken by the department to improve its performance.  The meeting was attended by the Sindh AIG, Training DIG, CPO Establishment DIG, Headquarters DIG and the DPO IT director, among other officials.

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The Sindh IG instructed the officials to ensure that officers and youth affiliated with the police department deployed to any security duty were given regular formal briefings regarding their responsibilities as well as information about different units and branches of CPO. They should also be apprised of the rules and regulations relating to other departments of the provincial government, he added.

The meeting also decided to formulate a committee to devise an updated draft of the Police Act, in line with the Police Act 2002. The draft would seek recommendations from the Sindh government regarding increase in rates of ticket challans and license fees. Recommendations should also be prepared based on the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Islamabad police’s Alternate Dispute Resolution Mechanism, it was decided.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 21st, 2018.

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