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| November 13, 2006 | Monday | Shawwal 20, 1427 |
Checks and balances in police on cards
LAHORE, Nov 12: The Punjab government is likely to introduce in some weeks a system to evaluate the police performance and audit money sanctioned to them under the Chief Minister Reforms Programme, besides the overall budgetary allocation for this fiscal, it is learnt.
The Punjab police have been allocated Rs21 billion for the current fiscal, besides Rs3.8 billion special grant under the programme.
Sources in the government told Dawn that the home department had completed work on the performance evaluation system which it would take up at a meeting in some days.
A senior Punjab government official said the idea to introduce the system had been tabled in view of slow pace of work on the reform agenda and the Punjab police senior hierarchy’s experimentation with the financial resources instead of initiating result-oriented steps.
The postings of supervisory police officers at each police station in Lahore and four other big cities of the province under the programme and then shelving the project within three months had been instrumental in the introduction of the performance evaluation system, the official added.
The SPOs of the rank of ASP/DSP were posted at all police stations of the five big cities in a bid to improve working and the police had to withdraw more than half of these officials. Mainly a power-sharing tussle between the SPOs and the officials in charge of the police stations caused the system to fail and embarrassment for the senior police officers.
The official said the performance evaluation system would not be direct checking of the accounts, but it would maintain a record of the police working, including police station environment, crime control, response to public complaints, pace of investigation, submission of cases to courts, and crime prevention and detection.
“We are working as to who would do the performance evaluation job. It may be done by a team of government officials or we may take support of some individuals or organisations from civil society.”
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