Times of Islamabad

Police Reforms: CJP Justice Asif Saeed Khosa takes important step

Police Reforms: CJP Justice Asif Saeed Khosa takes important step

*ISLAMABAD – Chief Justice of Pakistan Asif Saeed Khosa has called ameeting of the Police Reforms Steering Committee on February 11.*

Letters have been sent to all inspectors general (IGs) for the meeting.

The Police Reforms Steering Committee will present a report onimplementation of the recommendations so far.

The report provides some major recommendations to overhaul the policingsystem. The recommendations include redress of public grievances byestablishing complaint redress mechanisms at Central Police Office level,regional levels across all provinces and Islamabad Capital Territory and inthe districts.

The report had also recommended improving quality of investigation byestablishment of state of the art training institutes and better forensicsupport.

It includes revamping the urban policing by organizing the police commandin urban districts into eight wings including administration, traffic,operations, law and order, investigations, security, community relationsand communications and technology.

The report suggest an efficient Alternate Dispute Resolution mechanism toreduce the burden on courts and the federal – law of Alternate DisputeResolution Act, 2017 be extended to whole of the country or provincesshould replicate it.