- Approves certain amendments in the Police Reforms Act
PESHAWAR, July 13: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak chaired a meeting on police reforms here in the Chief Minister Secretariat that approved certain amendments in the Police Reforms Act that opened the existing police Act out of the cocoon. The new amendments would be tabled in the provincial assembly for incorporation into the Police Reforms Act. The Chief Minister said his government will make legislation for the police reforms as this province has multi-faceted challenges and the reforms were for the benefit of the people. These reforms would discourage crime promotion as practiced in the past and would promote crime fighting in the province
The meeting attended by Provincial Minister for Local Government Inayatullah Khan, Minister for Irrigation Sikandar Hayat Sherpao, Minister for Elementary and Secondary Education Muhammad Atif Khan, Minister for Public Health Engineering Shah Farman, Minister for Law Imtiaz Shahid Qureshi and other concerned authorizes, took for debate the contentious issues and that agreed upon by the earlier formed committee of the provincial cabinet on consensus. The meeting had a thread bare review of different sections making the police apolitical, an autonomous and independent body accountable internally and externally.
The meeting agreed to the proposal for the selection of Inspector General of Police of the province by the Chief Minister within the panel of three. It also agreed to the autonomy of IGP in postings and transfers etc.
Speaking on the occasion, Chief Mister Pervez Khattak said that his government would never interfere in the professional responsibilities of police force but it does not mean, however that there will be no check and balance mechanism. There will certainly be multi layers checks on police in the new amendments making it more professional, more efficient and more responsive to the crime fighting and complaints of the people. His government wanted this approach to be on ground in order to tackle the growing challenges in the province.-PR
