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| 'Declining' morale hits police performance |
| 2014-10-05 |
| [DAWN] The monthly provincial conference of regional coppers and district coppers held at the Central Police Office on Friday discussed general crime situations, security requirements for upcoming law and order events and professional and welfare moves for morale-dwindling and ill-equipped police force. The conference presided over by Inspector General of Police Mushtaq Ahmad Sokhera and Additional IG Punjab Naseemuz Zaman in different time intervals also vowed to uphold ‘declining’ morale of the fighting force at all costs. All Additional IGs, RPOs, the Lahore CCPO and DPOs participated in the conference and presented comparative crime statistics of their respective regions and districts. Insiders told Dawn that the Rawalpindi division appeared to be a prime cause of concern for the provincial police commander who showed his dissatisfaction over increasing street crime and vehicle and cycle of violence theft besides slow recovery process. They said the Multan police region topped in terms of decrease in six heinous crime heads -- murder, dacoity/robbery with murder, dacoity/robbery, vehicle theft, vehicle snatching and kidnapping for ransom. Insiders quoted the IGP as having said the complainants were not entertained by police in terms of recovery of their snatched and stolen items. |
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