By Our Web Correspondent
FAISALABAD– Inspector General of Punjab Police Shoaib Dastagir reached Faisalabad on Saturday to review police performance and address the regional force as a part of series of regional field visits.
Earlier, he addressed Gujranwala region police.
The provincial police chief addressing his force motivated them to protect citizens’ property and lives and to uphold the rule of law.
“All officers and officials especially deputed in field should perform with more zeal and passion utilizing modern technical developments like Geo fencing and forensic science for the elimination of criminal elements.”
Shoaib Dastagir further said police teams should improve their performance to control the spike in crime rate due to free registration and to stop incidents of robbery, dacoity and murder and other crimes, police crackdown should be accelerated under the supervision of senior officers and weekly reports of police actions must also be shared with Central Police Office.
He further directed to deal land grabbers and criminal elements with iron hand and to arrest the elements involved in brewing or selling of toxic liquor to protect the citizens from falling prey to this menace.
He further said that police service is about the public service and protection so it is the primary duty of the officers and officials of the force to implement law with uniformity because only then we can improve the image of police force and strengthen the department.
IGP directed the officers to take action against the officers and officials trespassing their authority without any delay through internal accountability unit and monitoring and inspection across all formations should be further improved so that careless elements could be held accountable and good performers could be encouraged.
All SDPOs and SHOs of Faisalabad region were present on the occasion.
RPO Faisalabad Raja Riffat Mukhtar, CPO Faisalabad retired Captain Muhammad Sohail Chaudhary, DPO Toba Tek Singh Waqar Shoaib Anwar, DPO Jhang Muhammad Hassan Raza Khan and DPO Chiniot Syed Hussnain Haider along with other officers were present.
Upon arrival at the Police Lines Faisalabad, the IG Punjab was presented salutation by a smartly turned police squad followed by laying a floral wreath at Yadgar-e-Shuhada and Fateha Khawani.
Crime meeting
IG Shoaib Dastagir also presided over a crime meeting at the Police Lines Complex where the RPO Faisalabad briefed his about crime graph and police actions in the region.
RPO Faisalabad Raja Riffat Mukhtar briefed the IG Punjab about crime control according to new policy, arrest of proclaimed offenders, timely registration of FIR, improvement in police investigation, and timely action on complaints received by emergency 15 service, complaint cell 8787 and Prime Minister’s Portal.
On which IG Punjab directed to pay special focus on the timely redressal on complaints, capacity building, public dealing and refresher courses for the force to meet contemporary challenges using all available resources to speed up the process of community policing.
Address to police officers
Addressing the officers at police court, the IG Punjab told them to honour the rank they got with the special blessings of Allah Almighty. “Our duty is to work with honesty and to ensure uniform implementation of law and provision of justice to citizens on equality,” the IGP said.
He directed the officers to deal public in a congenial manner and to solve their problems with every possible effort and means because this is the only way to accomplish the duty assigned to us.
The IGP also spoke to local media to inform them about his set priorities.
