
The decision was taken in a meeting chaired by Inspector General of Police Tahir Alam Khan. AIG Operations Sultan Azam Temuri, SSP Operations Asmatullah Junejo, all zonal SPs, SDPOs and SHOs and police Muharrars also attended the meeting.
The SSP stated that under the new system, security and vigilance committees will be constituted after dividing various areas of police stations into beats. He further informed that an ASI will be tasked to ensure complete coordination with members of these committees.
The IGP said notables will be made members of the bodies who will play a crucial role in maintaining peace and special cards would also be issued to them. He said young people who wanted to join these security and vigilance committees should submit their resumes in their respective police stations. He said that women would also be given representation in these bodies and those interested needed to submit their details at the Women Police Station near Sitara Market.
Khan said that members of committees will have to keep a vigilant eye and inform the police of any suspicious activity in their areas. Khan said the capital was divided into 87 beats where such committees were being established with the purpose to combat criminal elements effectively. Briefing the policemen, Khan said hotels, motels, restaurants, inns, markets, factories and slums should be focal areas and police beat officers should be very well acquainted about such locations.
Khan appealed to the citizens to cooperate with the police in this regard and provide any information about the suspects in their surroundings to the respective police station or Rescue 15. The name of the informer would be kept a secret and he would be rewarded for providing correct information, he concluded.
Security audit
In the wake of the massacre at the Army Public School in Peshawar, a survey of all educational institutes in Islamabad has been started in order to enhance security arrangements.
The capital’s chief commissioner has constituted a committee under the chairmanship of the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Special Branch Waqar Ahmed Chauhan, comprising members of the DC office, Traffic and Operations Division of ICT Police and representatives of the Federal Directorate of Education and the private education institutes’ body in this regard.
The committee has constituted five teams for carrying out a security audit while a security audit proforma has also been circulated among all educational institutes, including schools, colleges and universities with directions to complete it before resuming academic activities.
It has been decided that the teams will allow only those educational institutes to start academic activities whose security arrangements were found satisfactory.
In addition, legal action will be taken against the administration of any institution which fails to meet satisfactory security arrangements.
The purpose of the survey was to ensure the safety of students and staff as well as the institutions to avert any such incident in the future, said a spokesperson of the police.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 31st, 2014.
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