PESHAWAR, April 26: The National Police Foundation (NPF) is establishing schools and dispensaries in Swabi district to provide free education to children of police officials.

The government has allotted eight kanals of land in the Shah Mansoor Township, Peshawar, where the foundation plans to establish an English-medium school and a dispensary.

An official source said the NPF — a trust created under the Charitable Endowment Act 1890 for the Benefit of Police Personnel and their Dependents — had been providing services to widows and children of policemen who had laid down their lives in the line of duty.

The NPF Project Manager for Frontier province, Hamayun Khan Perichkhail, told Dawn that the foundation did not receive any financial aid from the government and generated its own resources. “We recruit retired employees of police, army, the Frontier Corps and Frontier Constabulary and sublet their services to banks etc.” he said.

The money thus collected was spent on welfare of people.