CPO orders extensive patrolling

Says mobile vans of police stations and posts should be on active patrolling round the clock

RAWALPINDI: Extensive patrolling is the sure-fire way of preventing crime, said City Police Officer (CPO) Faisal Rana, ordering police to patrol round the clock throughout the district.

Patrolling also helps police in watch and ward and identifying spots where anti-social elements lurk, he said addressing a meeting of police officials.

CPO said that mobile vans of police stations and posts should be on active patrolling round the clock, adding he would personally conduct surprise checks of any mobile van to ensure they were out on the street and patrolling.

According to a statement, CPO said proactive police patrolling played a crucial role to curb crimes all over the world. It's a fact that criminals and lawbreakers do fear the law enforcement, hence to avoid capture; they would think twice before committing a crime in a vicinity where there was active police patrolling going on.

The problem occurs when the field officers aren't actively patrolling instead resting somewhere and relay false positions of their movement over the police radio, I won't let that slide here in Rawalpindi, CPO said adding that I will be checking these patrolling vehicles randomly, if anyone found not to be present at the relayed point of the position will face strict departmental against them, he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 15^th, 2019.