Making changes: Six SHOs transferred, four officers declared unfit for job

MANSEHRA:

Six SHOs from different police stations in Mansehra were transferred on grounds of poor performance, while four other officers were declared unfit for promotion to SHO rank after a report from an evaluation committee on Friday.

Police sources told The Express Tribune that a committee headed by DPO Khurrum Rasheed with SP Investigation Muhammad Arif and DSP Raja Abdul Saboor, on orders from the IGP Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, was monitoring the performance of SHOs.



Six of them were declared unfit for the job and transferred. They were identified as Rafiuz Zaman, Aurangzeb Khan, Mukhtar Ahmed, Muhammad Afzal, Hakim Khan and Arshad Khan. They were asked to relinquish their charge and report to the line officer; while sub-inspectors Nazir, Ashraf, Jehanzeb and Rasheed were also declared as unfit for their jobs due to poor performance.

The sources added that there were numerous complaints against these six SHOs about their affiliation with timber smugglers and drug dealers. It was also reported the committee approved the names of 26 sub-inspectors and inspectors, declaring them eligible for the post of SHO.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 30^th, 2013.