HARIPUR: The office of the District Public Safety Commission was opened in the District Council Secretariat here on Thursday.

The DPSC members were selected last year by a committee headed by the district and sessions judge, while the election for the offices of chairman and vice-chairmen was held in the deputy commissioner’s office last month.

However, the commission failed to begin function as no office was allotted for it.

The district nazim later allotted the DPSC’s room at the intervention of the deputy commissioner.

Former provincial minister and PTI leader Yousuf Ayub Khan inaugurated the office during a special ceremony, where district nazim Adil Islam, DC Zahid Pervez Warraich, tehsil nazim, tehsil naib nazim, SP (investigation) Shah Nazar Khan and political activists were in attendance.

Mr Yousuf Ayub said the DPSCs were formed to check the performance of the police department.

He said complaints against policemen should be disposed of by an independent body instead of by the police.

The former minister said under the KP Police Act 2017, the powers granted to DPSCs were not ordinary and therefore, the policemen should ensure protection of the people’s life, honour and property.

He said the police’s excesses against the people won’t be tolerated.

Mr Yousuf Ayub asked the DPSC and police to develop a working relationship.

HARIPUR: The police have failed to trace the people, who deprived two moneychangers of Rs4.2 million cash at gunpoint on the Hazara Motorway on Wednesday afternoon.

The Kotnajibullah police said the investigation into the robbery was underway.

Bilal and Mohammad Umair of Abbottabad told the police that they’re stopped and looted by unidentified men riding a car near Kala Katha village when they’re returning from Islamabad in a car. The police said they had registered a criminal case against robbers before beginning investigation.

Published in Dawn, November 16th, 2018