PESHAWAR, Oct 25: A deputy inspector general among 78 other police officials of the Frontier province failed to qualify the tests taken by the government to send them to Kosovo and Liberia on peacekeeping missions, sources told Dawn here on Friday.

They said that 114 police officials from the NWFP offered their candidature for the peacekeeping missions in Kosovo and Liberia and only 36 could qualify after written and other ability tests.

“Most of these 78 police officials failed in the written English language test,” they divulged.

The sources said that 75 police officers would start coming back to the country from next month after serving in the peacekeeping mission under the United Nations umbrella in Kosovo.

The government had asked the police departments of all the four provinces to provide the services of 200 officials to Kosovo and also to the new peacekeeping mission in Liberia, they maintained.

Those who could qualify are nine SPs, one deputy commandant of FRP, four ASPs, one DSP, seven SHOs of Peshawar, 11 sub-inspectors and three inspectors.