RAWALPINDI, Dec 10: The government has decided to form a six-member federal police complaint authority to address public complaints against the law-enforcement agencies' officials, a source said on Friday.

The authority would probe public complaints against police, Federal Investigation Agency, Railways police, anti-narcotics force, Frontier Constabulary and Pakistan Motorway and Highways Police.

At first stage, the office of the authority would be set up at Prime Minister Secretariat, the source said. Later the four- member branches would be established in all the provinces by the year 2006, he added.

The source said the process to recruit the members had been started by the federal public service commission.