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HYDERABAD, April 2: The District Public Safety Commission could not start working after 19 days after the main office of the commission was shifted to some other place.
An unofficial meeting of the DPSC was held at the residence of Abdul Hadi Memon on Tuesday night which was chaired by the DPSC chairman, Masood Pervez.
The secretary, DPSC, did not issue any agenda or notice to the members regarding Tuesday’s meeting which discussed the issue of allotment of office to the commission in the rest house of the defunct SRTC in GOR Colony.
The commission was given half of the portion of SRTC’s rest house.
A DPSC member claimed that the rest house was given to the commission for 90 days whereas two guard rooms were also allotted on the ground floor of the Shahbaz Building where the record of the commission was lying.
Another member observed that the working of the commission should not be closed on the pretext of non-allocation of office because the people would suffer if it remained closed for a longer period. The commission has to deal with police-related complaints of the general public.
A member apprehended that the records of the commission might go missing if proper arrangements were not made for keeping it at a safer place.
The meeting was also attended by former member district council, Farheen Mughal, who has been elected as the MPA of People’s Party Parliamentarians on a reserved seat. Mughal was also among five elected members of the DPSC from the district council but after she resigned from its membership, she was not supposed or allowed to attend the meeting of the DPSC. Her resignation was submitted to the convener of the district council, Nawab Rashid Ali Khan.
Women councillors of the district council during the six-day session of the district council had informed the chair that since Farheen Mughal had resigned from the membership of the council, therefore a new member should be inducted in the DPSC as the representative of women.
A DPSC official, however, claimed that the notification, issued by the Sindh governor had not been withdrawn in respect of Farheen Mughal and on the basis of this notification she continued to attend the DPSC meetings.
On the other hand, the chairman, DPSC, Masood Pervez, has called for a permanent secretary for the Commission instead of the additional charge to the deputy district officer (DDO), Latifabad.
The allotment of proper office had become a bone of contention between the chairman, DPSC, Masood Pervez, and the administration after the chief justice of the Sindh High Court, Justice Saiyed Saeed Ashhad, called for temporary shifting of the civil courts in the revenue building unless a new building for the civil courts is constructed.
DPSC CHAIRMAN: The chairman, District Public Safety Commission (DPSC), Masood Pervez, has said that he was in a fix how to solve the problem of allotment of proper office to the DPSC given the fact that only a portion of the SRTC’s rest house was being temporarily given to the commission by the SRTC management on certain terms and conditions.
Talking to this correspondent on Wednesday, he said that he had written to the district coordination officer (DCO), Hyderabad, informing about his problem.
He said that two rooms given to the DPSC were simply inadequate for the commission officials to work. On the other hand, he said, the SRTC management is also offering only two rooms on the upper floor of the rest house with directives not to touch the records of the defunct SRTC.
He said that this message was communicated to him from the Karachi office of the SRTC through the DCO, Hyderabad.
He said that the commission has to deal with so many people in a day and nobody could guarantee that no one would touch the SRTC’s records.
He said that the lavatories and roofs of the rooms were in a bad shape.
Referring to the secretary, DPSC, he said that he wanted a permanent secretary and staff for the commission in accordance with the Police Order 2002.
About the criticism of the members of the district council, he argued that the members were within their right to criticize the commission but they should also hear the grievances of the commission as well.
He maintained that the district council did not give any funds, logistics support or staff to the commission whereas the commission was being asked to work outstandingly which was simply impossible.
He said that he had informed the DCO, Hyderabad, about his problems.
