‘Come to me if SHOs don’t register case’

Denies that SHOs had been warned they would be issued show cause notices if they registered robbery complaints.

LAHORE:

People who meet resistance or delays in the registration of their complaints at police stations should visit the office of the deputy inspector general (DIG) for operations or the superintendent of police (SP) concerned for remedy, DIG Ghulam Mehmood Dogar said on Thursday.

The DIG said that all station house officers (SHO) had been told to register first information reports as soon as they received complaints. He denied that SHOs had been warned they would be issued show cause notices if they registered robbery complaints.

Dogar told a press conference at the Model Town SP’s office that Lahore Police had arrested 27 suspects who were part of three gangs of dacoits. Eight motorbikes, 21 mobile phones, Rs300,000 in cash, 15 tolas of gold jewellery and 30 guns had been seized from them.

He said that the three gangs were wanted for 120 cases. He identified them as the Danish dacoit gang, Naseera dacoit gang and Shada dacoit gang. He said that the suspects had confessed to killing a 5-year-old boy during a robbery in Kahna police jurisdiction. In the same incident, one of the robbers was shot and later died and was buried in Kasur.

He said that members of the Danish gang revealed that they had used rented bikes on their jobs.

He said they had confessed to 13 cases. Capital City Police Officer Malik Ahmad Raza Tahir announced cash prizes and commendatory certificates for the police raiding parties.

The DIG refused to comment on a reported death threat to the chief minister, saying that this was classified information that he could not share with the press.

Dogar said that SHOs had been told to pay heed to calls made to Rescue 15. Forty SHOs had been issued show cause notices for not responding to Rescue 15 calls, he said, adding that he had monitored 20 calls personally to ensure that the callers were properly attended to.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 29^th, 2011.