K-P’s merged districts get model police stations

Police centres offer new services to better serve people of Orakzai, Mohmand districts

ISLAMABAD:

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Pakistan, the Government of Japan, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Police jointly inaugurated the Model Police Stations in Kalaya, Orakzai District and in Ghalanai, Mohmand District, in a ceremony held in the federal capital on Tuesday.

The model police stations are unique police centres as they provide a range of new facilities to better serve the people of merged districts.

Amongst others, these include a gender-responsive desk to address gender-based crimes reported to the police stations, a hall to convene joint community and police meetings, an investigation room, an office for station house officers, security posts, lodging facilities to accommodate 55 police personnel and separate holding rooms for men and women.

K-P Inspector General of Police, Akhtar Hayat Khan, apprised the partnership with UNDP Pakistan and the Government of Japan to enhance access to justice services for people in the province including merged districts.

“I am delighted to be here today, to inaugurate the first of its kind Model Police Station of Mohmand and Orakzai, which is a result of the collaboration between the K-P Police, UNDP Pakistan and the Government of Japan.”

Addressing the ceremony, the Ambassador of Japan to Pakistan, HE WADA Mitsuhiro, underlined, “Supporting security and justice sector institutions to provide people-oriented and gender-responsive services, especially in post-merger districts, is crucial in maintaining the rule of law in K-P.”

In 2022, under the same project, the UNDP Pakistan Rule of Law Programme also trained over 250 former Levies/Khasadar who were newly integrated into KP Police on professional people-friendly police services.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, June 7^th, 2023.