LAHORE: Punjab Police have got a new automated human resource management and attendance system to overcome numerous administrative and monitoring hurdles.

Dr Umar Saif, the Punjab IT Board (PITB) chairman, said this at a meeting on Thursday.

He said the PITB had already provided almost 1,000 bio-metric devices to police stations of Punjab and Inspector General Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera had instructed regional and district heads to ensure the bio-metric attendance of lower staff.

Dr Saif said the system had started working and the central dashboard was receiving attendance from police stations and other offices.

He said that besides daily attendance, the system was equally helpful to maintain the necessary record of each servant such as recruitment, qualification, conduct, departmental proceedings, punishments or rewards, synopses of annual confidential records and medical profiles which could not be updated manually otherwise.

“The system is also useful to assess and compare the workforce of a police station with the ratio of crimes occurring within its jurisdiction which could enable the authorities to rationalise the distribution of workforce in accordance with the volume of crimes,” he added.

Dr Saif said the system was launched in the backdrop of a fact that some servants even did not have had their service records anywhere in Punjab but now each and every constable would be pin pointed instantly through the online data.

Published in Dawn, October 23rd, 2015

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