MINGORA: A three-day training workshop to make police responsive to the needs of vulnerable groups, especially women and children, and bring positive attitudinal change in police concluded here on Thursday.

The training titled “Attitudinal change communication” for the staff of Mingora and Kabal police stations and Police Training School Swat was organised by Rozan in collaboration with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police.

Malakand DIG Azad Khan said that the training was indispensable for police force as they wanted to improve the service delivery in the police station.

“Apart from establishing model reporting centres and help lines across the province to ensure pleasant environment to the complainant, we are also working on the attitudinal change of police to deal the complainant in a pleasant way,” he told Dawn.

The DIG said that the training conducted by Rozan was a better initiative to cover all related aspects of police attitude with the public.

Rizwan Saeed, programme coordinator Humqadam of Rozan, said that the training was a joint venture of police and Rozan to build capacity of the police force, particularly in areas where they dealt with public.

Published in Dawn, August 28th, 2015

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