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19/07/2017

Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak has directed to immediately frame rules of business for the smooth implementation process of the police act in the province.

Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak has directed to immediately frame rules of business for the smooth implementation process of the police act in the province. He was presiding over a meeting on the implementation process of police act in the province at Chief Minister Secretariat Peshawar today. Chief Secretary Abid Saeed, IGP Salahuddin Mehsud, Implementation Commissioner, Tariq Umar Khitab, Secretary Finance Shakeel Qadir, Principal Secretary to CM Muhammad Israr, Secretary Home Siraj Khan and representatives of law department and others attended. The meeting had a detailed discussion on the implementation process, the completion of different requirements, required for the formation of different safety commissions at provincial, regional and district levels and the framing of rules of business under the police act. The meeting took a number of decisions for the independence of different safety commissions in the province and the implementation process under police act in the province. Addressing the participants, the Chief Minister said that his government has achieved the target of making police an independent body responsive to the will of the people. However, this independence should not be unfettered. There should be different safeguards at different tiers of governance for the accountability and responsiveness of the police force. The different tiers/commissions would strictly monitor the complaints against police force that would be a check on the force. He directed to expedite the formation of safety commissions at all levels for the smooth implementation adding that the members of the safety commission would have to deliver to run the system of policing efficiently. Pervez Khattak directed to frame the rules of business within ten days thereafter the implementation commissioner would give a road map to oversee the whole implementation process on police act in the province. He said that police made tremendous achievements in lowering down the crime graph after his government decisions to give power and independence to police. This was not an easy decision to make and it was by all standards a remarkable achievement by his government. However, it is more important to retain the tempo of responsiveness by police force therefore it was necessary to install all the tiers at provincial, regional and district levels in the shape of safety commissions to make police force continue performing up to the mark, he added. He directed the finance department to facilitate the office of implementation commission. He also directed to complete the composition of the safety commissions which would be represented by the treasury, opposition and independent members of the civil society etc. =======