HYDERABAD, Oct 6: Office-bearers of nine district public safety commissions at a meeting held here on Sunday formed Sindh Coordination Council to solve problems confronting the commissions in different districts.

The DPSC representatives complained that the police did not cooperate with them in resolving peoples’ problems.

Chairmen of Hyderabad, Larkana, Badin, Sukkur, Tharparkar, Shikarpur and Thatta commissions represented their districts while members from Khairpur and Mirpurkhas attended the meeting as chairmen of the respective district commissions are yet to be elected.

Hyderabad DPSC chief Masood Pervez was elected as the chairman, Badin DPSC chairman Dr Abdul Aziz and Sukkur DPSC chairman Shafqat Hussain Shah were elected as vice-chairmen and Larkana DPSC chairman Dr Niaz Chandio was elected as the general-secretary of the newly-formed council.

The meeting noted that the Sindh government did not give due attention to the DPSCs and the commissions continued to face problems due to non-availability of funds and lack of coordination among different departments.

A participant of the meeting told this correspondent that the DPSC office-bearers were in agreement that the Sindh government should address issues of the commissions if they were to be made effective watchdog bodies over the police.

Referring to the Khairpur district, he said the DPSC chairman could not be elected before a vacant seat of member was filled.

He said the meeting observed that the police in Hyderabad to some extent cooperated with the DPSC but reports from other districts were disappointing.

The SCC was formed on the pattern of the Punjab Coordination Council. The National Coordination Council has already been formed. Some by-laws were also made for running affairs of the SCC.

The purposes of the SCC are to maintain coordination among different DPSCs, take up matters of the commissions with the National Reconstruction Bureau and Sindh and federal governments and to present a report before the members.

The members were asked to identify issues to be taken up with respective authorities.