PESHAWAR, March 3: The government has delegated the newly posted regional coordination officers (RCOs) with immense administrative powers, virtually making them as the superior authority for all the district coordination officers (DCOs), political agents and deputy inspectors general (DIGs) of police.

Through an executive order issued here on Saturday last, the Frontier government has outlined the overall work scope of the newly appointed RCOs in maintaining law and order and their working relations with the local functionaries.

The DCOs and political agents, as per the order, have been directed to interact with the provincial government and Fata Secretariat through RCOs concerned on law and order situation and administration issues.

Likewise, the DIGs of the regions and capital city police officer (CCPO) Peshawar had been directed to report and seek guidance of the RCOs concerned in all matters pertaining to law and order in their respective regions.

Moreover, all the administrative secretaries while interacting with their district offices in future will use the channel of RCOs, the notification maintained.

The NWFP governor had notified, on Jan 17, the establishment of RCOs at three places of the province mainly to improve coordination between different tiers of government in terms of law and order. For this purpose, whole of NWFP and adjoining tribal belt had been divided into three zones.