Bridging the gap: Five citizen-police coordination centres open for business
Centres to focus on resolving community issues, ending indecent police practices.
A file photo of Islamabad police. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
ISLAMABAD:
More citizen-police coordination centres will help them win the trust of the capital’s residents, the police expect.
Inspector General of the Islamabad Police (IGP) Sikandar Hayat inaugurated a coordination centre at the Shalimar Police Station in Sector F-10/2 on Saturday. Similar coordination centres were also opened at the Golra, Tarnol, Ramna and women police stations on the same day.
Hayat said the main objective of the centre is to bridge the gap between the police and the public and to provide relief to citizens as well as inculcate a friendly policing policy. The IGP urged policemen to win the confidence of people so they can help the police in curbing crime and creating mutual trust.
The centres are expected to focus on priority areas including resolving community problems on an immediate basis, promoting a friendlier policing attitude and ending offensive practices at police stations. Access to the coordination committees is primarily through the police complaint rooms in each police station.
Each committee mostly comprises residents and traders who live and work within the jurisdiction of each police station.
Senior police officials and members of the citizen police coordination committees were also present at the inauguration ceremony at the Shalimar Police Station. Members of the coordination committees assured they will cooperate with the police to improve the police-public relationship and to help resolve problems faced by residents in a timely manner. The Islamabad Police unsuccessfully experimented with the citizen-police mediation committees in the past. In their latest attempt, the police have so far inaugurated coordination centres at seven police stations including Margalla Police Station in Sector F-8 and Kohsar Police Station in F-7.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 1st, 2013.
More citizen-police coordination centres will help them win the trust of the capital’s residents, the police expect.
Inspector General of the Islamabad Police (IGP) Sikandar Hayat inaugurated a coordination centre at the Shalimar Police Station in Sector F-10/2 on Saturday. Similar coordination centres were also opened at the Golra, Tarnol, Ramna and women police stations on the same day.
Hayat said the main objective of the centre is to bridge the gap between the police and the public and to provide relief to citizens as well as inculcate a friendly policing policy. The IGP urged policemen to win the confidence of people so they can help the police in curbing crime and creating mutual trust.
The centres are expected to focus on priority areas including resolving community problems on an immediate basis, promoting a friendlier policing attitude and ending offensive practices at police stations. Access to the coordination committees is primarily through the police complaint rooms in each police station.
Each committee mostly comprises residents and traders who live and work within the jurisdiction of each police station.
Senior police officials and members of the citizen police coordination committees were also present at the inauguration ceremony at the Shalimar Police Station. Members of the coordination committees assured they will cooperate with the police to improve the police-public relationship and to help resolve problems faced by residents in a timely manner. The Islamabad Police unsuccessfully experimented with the citizen-police mediation committees in the past. In their latest attempt, the police have so far inaugurated coordination centres at seven police stations including Margalla Police Station in Sector F-8 and Kohsar Police Station in F-7.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 1st, 2013.