PESHAWAR, Jan 7: NWFP Inspector General of Police Mohammad Saeed Khan has said the police reforms would provide a better opportunity to police officers to serve the nation in a more efficient way.
Speaking to a 25-member delegation of the 28th Basic Course under training Assistant Superintendents of Police, the IGP said that the police reforms would prove a real test for the ASPs to remove public complaints.
The delegation was led by the Course Commander of National Police Academy, Islamabad, SSP Zulfiqar Cheema, said a press release issued on Monday.
The police chief said the basic philosophy of appointing ASPs as SHOs in the police stations was to remove the public complaints and serve the people in a more efficient way.
He deplored the police performance in the past, saying that the police could not deliver the goods, which necessitated police reforms to ensure protection to the people.
The IGP urged the police officers to remain loyal to their profession, observing that it was not the resources which mattered but integrity and honesty.
Referring to the Frontier Police, Saeed Khan maintained that policing in the NWFP was very difficult due to certain geographical and administrative structure but it was a matter of pride and pleasure that the Frontier Police had become a role model for the rest of the country.
The Frontier Police took a lead in introducing the much-awaited police reforms, arrested more proclaimed offenders and enjoying satisfactory law and order situation, he added.
CONSTABLES RECRUITMENT: The NWFP government started recruitment in Frontier Reserve Police here on Monday, following the introduction of police reforms.
Police officials said that over 3,000 candidates from across the province had applied against 300 vacancies of constable.
A senior police official told Dawn:”This is a major recruitment of constables in Frontier police during the last five years”.
The government had sanctioned only 300 vacancies despite the police department demand of more than 1,000 constables, he added.
A large number of candidates along with their parents thronged at Peshawar Sports Complex to appear in physical fitness test.
But owing to rush and lack of accommodation in the complex candidates from Kohat, Bannu, Malakand, D.I.Khan, Hazara, Peshawar and Charsadda were brought to Peshawar Wring road for the test.
The candidates will be short listed through the test and only successful participants to be invited for general aptitude test.
Recently-introduced police reforms in the province divided police in preventive and investigative departments.