No margin for error: Chinese to be provided security in 3 categories
DIG Haider Ashraf reviews security arrangements for Chinese in Lahore
The Security SP, the Mujahid SP and divisional SPs of the Operations Wing attended the meeting on Thursday. PHOTO: EXPRESS
LAHORE:
Operations DIG Haider Ashraf chaired a meeting on Thursday to review security arrangements for Chinese nationals residing in Lahore.
The Security SP, the Mujahid SP and divisional SPs of the Operations Wing attended the meeting. The SPs have been directed to visit places in their divisions where Chinese citizens are working or living, and make a security plan for them in three days.
Work places and project sites of Chinese workers would be put in A+, A and B categories, said one of the participants of the meeting. He said the DIG had ordered the SPs, the DSPs and the SHOs concerned to enter their comments in an “inspection register” if they found any discrepancy in the security arrangements for Chinese citizens.
The official said the DIG had also taken up the incidences when Chinese citizens had refused to avail security while moving around. He said this posed a hurdle in formulating a security plan for them.
The DIG said IGP Mushtaq Sukhera, CCPO Amin Wains and the Home Department had asked police to ensure that security guards did not abandon Chinese citizens even if they insisted they did not use them.
The meeting discussed a security strategy for hundreds of Chinese visiting Lahore daily from other cities. The DIG told the SPs it was police’s duty to escort the Chinese citizens as soon as they entered Lahore.
The DIG ordered Security SP Liaquat Malik to write a letter to the IGP requesting him to direct all district police officers to provide security to the Chinese in their areas. The meeting decided that focal persons of Chinese citizens would be asked to inform police about their arrival and departure.
Malik said the premises where Chinese were working or staying had been categorised on the basis of their number.
He said the sites where more than 10 Chinese citizens were present had been placed in A+ category; those with 3-10 Chinese in A category and those with less than three Chinese citizens in B category.
The SP said 410 officials from Lahore police had been deployed on Chinese nationals’ security.
“The number crosses 1,000 if we count the policemen escorting them on a daily basis,” he said.
About the security of Chinese workers who would be arriving in the city for the construction of Orange Line Metro Train project, Malik said he was not authorised to comment on that. He said he had not received any orders in this regard. Requesting anonymity, a police officer said that there were 65 project sites in Lahore where the Chinese citizens were working. He said that out of those, 22 were government projects.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 7th, 2015.
Operations DIG Haider Ashraf chaired a meeting on Thursday to review security arrangements for Chinese nationals residing in Lahore.
The Security SP, the Mujahid SP and divisional SPs of the Operations Wing attended the meeting. The SPs have been directed to visit places in their divisions where Chinese citizens are working or living, and make a security plan for them in three days.
Work places and project sites of Chinese workers would be put in A+, A and B categories, said one of the participants of the meeting. He said the DIG had ordered the SPs, the DSPs and the SHOs concerned to enter their comments in an “inspection register” if they found any discrepancy in the security arrangements for Chinese citizens.
The official said the DIG had also taken up the incidences when Chinese citizens had refused to avail security while moving around. He said this posed a hurdle in formulating a security plan for them.
The DIG said IGP Mushtaq Sukhera, CCPO Amin Wains and the Home Department had asked police to ensure that security guards did not abandon Chinese citizens even if they insisted they did not use them.
The meeting discussed a security strategy for hundreds of Chinese visiting Lahore daily from other cities. The DIG told the SPs it was police’s duty to escort the Chinese citizens as soon as they entered Lahore.
The DIG ordered Security SP Liaquat Malik to write a letter to the IGP requesting him to direct all district police officers to provide security to the Chinese in their areas. The meeting decided that focal persons of Chinese citizens would be asked to inform police about their arrival and departure.
Malik said the premises where Chinese were working or staying had been categorised on the basis of their number.
He said the sites where more than 10 Chinese citizens were present had been placed in A+ category; those with 3-10 Chinese in A category and those with less than three Chinese citizens in B category.
The SP said 410 officials from Lahore police had been deployed on Chinese nationals’ security.
“The number crosses 1,000 if we count the policemen escorting them on a daily basis,” he said.
About the security of Chinese workers who would be arriving in the city for the construction of Orange Line Metro Train project, Malik said he was not authorised to comment on that. He said he had not received any orders in this regard. Requesting anonymity, a police officer said that there were 65 project sites in Lahore where the Chinese citizens were working. He said that out of those, 22 were government projects.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 7th, 2015.