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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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THREATS AND RESPONSES: LAW ENFORCEMENT; Pakistan's Police Force Struggles to Find the Resources It Needs to Combat Terrorism
By DAVID ROHDE
Published: September 30, 2002
For a senior Pakistani police official, the night of Sept. 12 should have been a time of triumph. The previous day, his officers helped capture 10 men suspected of being members of Al Qaeda, including Ramzi bin al-Shibh, a senior operative thought to have been intimately involved in planning the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
But, the seething official said that night that he had no idea whom his men had just risked their lives capturing. Pakistani intelligence agents had whisked the prisoners away before the police could question them.
''Police in Pakistan are not working against Al Qaeda because we have no information,'' he said bitterly. ''Nobody shares it with us.''
The commander's anger was a sign of simmering tensions between Pakistan's bedraggled police force and its powerful and secretive military intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence. The police say the lack of cooperation is hampering the hunt for Al Qaeda.
Critics of the force say, though, that it is exaggerating its own importance and competence. ''When it is with the police, everything leaks out,'' said a Pakistani investigator who has worked with both agencies. ''Everyone knows what is happening; there is nothing secret there.''
Pakistan's ill-equipped, poorly trained and, according to critics, chronically corrupt 300,000-officer police force has suddenly been thrust onto the front lines of the American-led campaign against terrorism. In the last six months, the hunt for militants has shifted from a military campaign along the border with Afghanistan to an intelligence and law enforcement operation in Pakistan's biggest cities and central provinces.
Militants have carried out a half dozen attacks in Pakistan this year on Western targets that killed 39 people and wounded hundreds. Dozens of Qaeda members are still believed to be hiding in Pakistan, possibly with the aid of local militants.
Arrayed against them is a razor-thin line of Pakistani police officers. Most militants are armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles that fire six rounds a second. Most of the police are armed with World War II-era rifles that fire one round a second.
The force has no automated system for checking fingerprints, little DNA testing and an antiquated radio system that anyone with a scanner can hear. For the first time in the country's 53-year history, all 1,250 police stations will have their own vehicles this year. Last month, the country's 141-year-old police code was updated for the first time.
''The average salary is 3,500 rupees a month,'' or about $60, said Moinuddin Haider, the country's interior minister. ''Obviously, morale will be low.''
To help seal the border with Afghanistan, the United States has given the Pakistani police an initial $73 million aid package, including five refurbished Vietnam-era Huey helicopters. Police officials say that the helicopters are fraught with mechanical problems and constantly break down and that the best equipment goes to the intelligence service.
Police officials say they want to overhaul the force but complain that most American aid goes to the intelligence agency, which is seen here as a branch of the powerful military.
The military receives about 20 percent of the federal budget and has its own farms, universities, residential neighborhoods, hospitals, factories and schools. The police force, meanwhile, gets 1 percent of the budget and has become a widely distrusted force known for abuse of authority, intimidation and corruption.
A recent Asian Development Bank study concluded that investigations are ''helter-skelter operations conducted without consistency and often outside the boundaries of the law.'' Only 30 percent of cases end with a conviction. The study urged the police to ''move away from their more traditional method of extracting confessions'' -- in other words, beatings.
Pakistanis who live near the apartment building where Mr. bin al-Shibh was arrested said they were hesitant to report suspicious activities, or even come to the aid of strangers, because they feared interacting with police officers. ''Police will arrest you if you take someone to the someone to the hospital,'' a shopkeeper said.
Examples of police bravery exist. Six policemen were wounded and two militants killed in the fierce four-hour gun battle that led to Mr. bin al-Shibh's arrest.
Muhammad Rafique, a 46-year-old police officer, expressed the fatalism that is common among officers.
Armed with a fifth-grade education and a 10-year-old rifle, he is one of the police officers who guard the American Consulate in Karachi, where two officers were among the 12 Pakistanis killed in a car bomb attack in June. He spends his days searching for car bombs. If he finds one, it will probably be too late.
''If I'm on duty, I'll become a martyr,'' he said. ''I believe in heaven.''
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