May 29, 2008	Thursday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 23, 1429

KARACHI, May 28: Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza on Wednesday said that people must be advised to lodge their complaints against police excesses with the Provincial Public Safety and Police Complaints Commission, the only legal body to deal with such complaints.

He was speaking during his visit to the commission’s secretariat where he also held a meeting to review its working.

The minister stressed on a time frame to be fixed to dispose of public complaints against police, and said that police response in case of any inquiry conducted by the commission should be quick and positive.

He said that culture of auctioning of police stations had been eliminated. He asked the commission to recommend exemplary punishment to those police officials found guilty of excesses and wrongdoings.—APP