HYDERABAD, Dec 5: The District Public Safety Commission, Hyderabad, will form committees at taluka level and computerize the record of criminal cases.

This was said by the chairman of the DPSC, Masood Pervez, at the inaugural ceremony of the commission’s office on Tuesday. An Iftar party was also arranged on the occasion.

He said the commission would entertain complaints of the people against the police excesses and would approve schemes, prepared by the DPO in consultation with the district Nazim, to improve the police performance.

He said members of the commission would take steps to ensure coordination and liaison between the police and people.

The members would also assist the police officers in disposal of cases against the people, he added.

He said the commission, formed under the police order, 2002, was aimed at improving the police system.

PROGRESS REPORTS: The EDOs of several departments, at a meeting held here on Wednesday, submitted their progress reports about implementation of decisions, taken at a meeting of provincial secretaries.

The EDO, finance, Shamsuddin Leghari, presided over the meeting.

Leghari, on behalf of the DCO, asked the EDOs to implement the decisions in letter and spirit so that better services could be provided to people.

He said the government was giving priority to schemes aimed at poverty alleviation.

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