Security measures: 140 recruits complete prisons training

Prisons IG Nusrat Hussain Manghan said jails will be equipped with 12 jammer devices.

HYDERABAD: Prisons IG Nusrat Hussain Manghan has said that the Hyderabad and Sukkur jails will soon be equipped with 12 jammer devices to strengthen the prisons’ security. Seven jammers have already been installed in Karachi’s prisons, he added.

“The Karachi, Hyderabad and Sukkur prisons are high security facilities as a number of high-profile convicts and under-trial-prisoners are imprisoned there,” he said, while addressing a passing-out parade of recruits at the Prison Training Institute at Nara Jail in Hyderabad on Monday.

As many as 140 recruits completed their four month-training programme at the centre. According to the principal, Shahnawaz Saand, the recruits were taught about the service rules, prison laws and how to respond in an emergency situation.

The institute was established in 2008 and has trained 350 prison staff since its initiation.

Manghan revealed that the construction work of the new prisons in Benazirabad, Thatta and Mirpurkhas districts was underway and will be completed soon. New weapons will also be acquired for the prison institute while a firing range and more hostels for recruits will be built after the prison department’s recommendations were approved by the Sindh government.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 18^th, 2014.