Restructuring police: 20 officers posted to city’s newly created divisions

The changes are largely cosmetic but will reduce workload of some SSPs.

KARACHI: After the provincial government approved their request to restructure the police department, law enforcers have immediately started trying to implement the change. They issued a notification on Monday which said that five SSPs and 15 SPs have been appointed for the city’s newly established 20 divisions.

The move to restructure the department was made in the light of the recently promulgated Sindh People’s Local Government Ordinance 2012 as well as to reduce the workload of SSPs and SPs, ensuring that crime can be tackled more effectively.

Grade-19 officers have been posted in the Gulshan, Orangi, Gulberg, Clifton and City divisions because of increasing crime rates in the areas.

Grade-18 officers have been posted to the remaining 15 divisions.

The officers will assume charge of their new posts soon. The restructuring has brought mostly cosmetic changes - the designation of most officers, including SP Sarfaraz Nawaz and SP Chaudhry Asad Ali, has changed but they are still controlling the same police stations.

For a few, the workload has indeed decreased. “This change will obviously have a huge impact,” said Orangi division SSP Amir Farooqui, who was previously the District West SSP. “I used to have control over 18 police stations but now I command only seven. This makes my jobs easier and I can command the activities at these police stations more closely.”

Heads of some of the divisions

 Name and post                                           Divison

SSP Asif Ejaz Sheikh                                   Clifton

SSP Javed Ali Maher                                   City

SSP Amir Farooqui                                     Orangi

SSP Asim Qaimkhani                                 Gulberg

SSP Rao Anwar                                           Gulshan

SP Chaudhry Asad Ali                                 Saddar

SP Sarfaraz Nawaz                                     Lyari

SP Syed Asad Raza                                     Keamari

SP Qamar Zaman                                       SITE

SP Malik Zafar Iqbal                                   Baldia

SP Syed Salman Hussain                           Liaquatabad

SP Latif Ahmed Siddiqui                            North Nazimabad

SP Jan Mohammad Birhamani                   Gadap

SP Zahid Hussain Shah                              Malir

SP Abdul Qayyum Patafi                            New Karachi

Published in The Express Tribune, October 2^nd, 2012.