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The development of positive attitudes and healthy behavior is useful in order to enhance the personal and professional lives of all people. However, this is even more critical for certain groups and institutions that work in high stress conditions and carry responsibilities that affect millions of lives. The police is one such institution. It requires the highest standards of socio-ethical conduct in its day to day operations. It is a need of both the police force and the society at large that more work be done to achieve this goal.
The efficiency, effectiveness, and professionalism of the police force is adversely affected by a range of stressful factors. The present day police woman/man is over-worked, underpaid, unappreciated by the community, feels alienated from his/her family, and often has to work under conditions where his/her life is under threat. Moreover his/her training does not include exposure to vital issues that effect this relationship with the community, such as violence against women and children, communication skills, and stress management.
These attitudinal and behavioral limitations translate, at one end of the spectrum, to serious police abuse and a violation of human rights. The other end of the spectrum, though less extreme, is nonetheless damaging, resulting in ineffectual police responses to crimes and a sense of insecurity and distrust of the police by the general public. As a result, often the police force does not carry the respect and confidence of the very people and society whom it is meant to work for. This has a direct impact on the police's level of self-respect, self-confidence, collective self-esteem, and efficiency, which in turn affects performance and, thus, the vicious cycle goes on. Most people, including the police force itself agree that there is an urgent need to have policemen and women demonstrate more sensitive and positive attitudes.
Ex-Commandant, NPA as new PPO Sindh
Maj (retd) Zia-ul-Hassan, Commandant, National Police Academy, Islamabad, has been appointed as the new Provincial Police Officer (IGP) of Sindh, according to a notification issued by the federal government on Wednesday.Zia replaces Jehangir Mirza, who retired on April 14.
Talking to APP in Lahore on Wednesday, Zia announced his priorities, focusing on maintaining the law and order, a better image of the police, introduction of police duty in shifts, and community policing.
He said vigilance system will also be introduced in the entire province — from police station level to the top level — to evaluate the performance of the force with reference to their duties. “This will address the problems of people, besides help check crimes through intensive day-and-night patrolling,” he added.
Zia assured that “right man would be posted to the right job” purely on merit. He said the working of the investigation wing will also be improved and made transparent. “Community policing will be started in all the cities under the supervision of additional inspectors general and the capital city police officers to help redress the grievances of the people.”
Zia said the police personnel would be imparted in-service one-week capacity-building course in batches for their grooming and improvement in behaviour with citizens. He said all the police stations would be properly equipped with wireless-fitted jeeps, adding the main emphasis would be on strengthening the police stations, which are the focal point in the entire police system.
About the welfare of the force, he said proper boarding, lodging and mess facilities will be provided on the pattern of the Pakistan Army and the Motorway Police.
(Source: The News International, 16 June 2007)
According to sources, he’s going to have to face a tough environment in Sindh because a ruling political party demanded that the Sindh IG had to be a domicile holder of Sindh, but he is a domicile holder of the Punjab and hails from Gujranwala.
The federal government has overlooked this matter, he added.A relevant government official who wished to remain anonymous said that high-ranking officers that come from out of Sindh find it difficult to adapt to the political situation in the province.They also tried to transfer an IG before but had to cancel his deputation because he was from the Punjab. However, the official said, this time Zia ul Hasan Khan has been deputed and will assume charge in the next three to four days and the government will facilitate him as much as possible.
Previously, Khan served as the IG Prison of the Punjab from December 1997 to July 2000, as IG Motorway police from January 2002 to June 2006, and also as IGP of the Punjab from June 2005 to December 2006.
Later he was transferred to the National Police Academy.Khan was also posted as the Joint Director General of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) for one month in 2000.
He joined the police in 1978 as superintendent of police (SP), from the army, and his first post was Traffic, Lahore.In 1984 he was promoted to DIG and then in 2002 he was promoted to grade 21 and in 2006 he attained grade 22.
In 1992 he went through a one-month training course in security intelligence administration in the UK with British security services, MI6.All of his posting were throughout the Punjab. Three posts were of IG, one was of DIG, one of AIG, one of Director of Anti-Corruption, one of DG Wafaqi Mohtasib.
This is his first posting in Sindh and sources said that he only has six months left before retiring.He was commissioned to the army in 1968 and he retired from the army on May 23, 1981.
(Source: Daily Times, 14 June 2007)
Will the new PPO Sindh deliver what he envisages?
Let us hope he does. What do you think? Post your comments.
(Source: http://www.rozan.org/)
The development of positive attitudes and healthy behavior is useful in order to enhance the personal and professional lives of all people. However, this is even more critical for certain groups and institutions that work in high stress conditions and carry responsibilities that affect millions of lives. The police is one such institution. It requires the highest standards of socio-ethical conduct in its day to day operations. It is a need of both the police force and the society at large that more work be done to achieve this goal.
The efficiency, effectiveness, and professionalism of the police force is adversely affected by a range of stressful factors. The present day police woman/man is over-worked, underpaid, unappreciated by the community, feels alienated from his/her family, and often has to work under conditions where his/her life is under threat. Moreover his/her training does not include exposure to vital issues that effect this relationship with the community, such as violence against women and children, communication skills, and stress management.
These attitudinal and behavioral limitations translate, at one end of the spectrum, to serious police abuse and a violation of human rights. The other end of the spectrum, though less extreme, is nonetheless damaging, resulting in ineffectual police responses to crimes and a sense of insecurity and distrust of the police by the general public. As a result, often the police force does not carry the respect and confidence of the very people and society whom it is meant to work for. This has a direct impact on the police's level of self-respect, self-confidence, collective self-esteem, and efficiency, which in turn affects performance and, thus, the vicious cycle goes on. Most people, including the police force itself agree that there is an urgent need to have policemen and women demonstrate more sensitive and positive attitudes.
Ex-Commandant, NPA as new PPO Sindh
Maj (retd) Zia-ul-Hassan, Commandant, National Police Academy, Islamabad, has been appointed as the new Provincial Police Officer (IGP) of Sindh, according to a notification issued by the federal government on Wednesday.Zia replaces Jehangir Mirza, who retired on April 14.
Talking to APP in Lahore on Wednesday, Zia announced his priorities, focusing on maintaining the law and order, a better image of the police, introduction of police duty in shifts, and community policing.
He said vigilance system will also be introduced in the entire province — from police station level to the top level — to evaluate the performance of the force with reference to their duties. “This will address the problems of people, besides help check crimes through intensive day-and-night patrolling,” he added.
Zia assured that “right man would be posted to the right job” purely on merit. He said the working of the investigation wing will also be improved and made transparent. “Community policing will be started in all the cities under the supervision of additional inspectors general and the capital city police officers to help redress the grievances of the people.”
Zia said the police personnel would be imparted in-service one-week capacity-building course in batches for their grooming and improvement in behaviour with citizens. He said all the police stations would be properly equipped with wireless-fitted jeeps, adding the main emphasis would be on strengthening the police stations, which are the focal point in the entire police system.
About the welfare of the force, he said proper boarding, lodging and mess facilities will be provided on the pattern of the Pakistan Army and the Motorway Police.
(Source: The News International, 16 June 2007)
According to sources, he’s going to have to face a tough environment in Sindh because a ruling political party demanded that the Sindh IG had to be a domicile holder of Sindh, but he is a domicile holder of the Punjab and hails from Gujranwala.
The federal government has overlooked this matter, he added.A relevant government official who wished to remain anonymous said that high-ranking officers that come from out of Sindh find it difficult to adapt to the political situation in the province.They also tried to transfer an IG before but had to cancel his deputation because he was from the Punjab. However, the official said, this time Zia ul Hasan Khan has been deputed and will assume charge in the next three to four days and the government will facilitate him as much as possible.
Previously, Khan served as the IG Prison of the Punjab from December 1997 to July 2000, as IG Motorway police from January 2002 to June 2006, and also as IGP of the Punjab from June 2005 to December 2006.
Later he was transferred to the National Police Academy.Khan was also posted as the Joint Director General of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) for one month in 2000.
He joined the police in 1978 as superintendent of police (SP), from the army, and his first post was Traffic, Lahore.In 1984 he was promoted to DIG and then in 2002 he was promoted to grade 21 and in 2006 he attained grade 22.
In 1992 he went through a one-month training course in security intelligence administration in the UK with British security services, MI6.All of his posting were throughout the Punjab. Three posts were of IG, one was of DIG, one of AIG, one of Director of Anti-Corruption, one of DG Wafaqi Mohtasib.
This is his first posting in Sindh and sources said that he only has six months left before retiring.He was commissioned to the army in 1968 and he retired from the army on May 23, 1981.
(Source: Daily Times, 14 June 2007)
Will the new PPO Sindh deliver what he envisages?
Let us hope he does. What do you think? Post your comments.
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