Advisor to Chief Minister on Home Affairs, Wasim Akhtar has said the provincial government is making all-out efforts to improve police performance and change its mindset.
In the past, appointments and positing in the department were made on political basis, which damaged efficiency of the police, he said while addressing members of Korangi Association of Trade and Industry (Kati) at its auditorium here on Monday.
But in the present regime none would be appointed and posted on political ground in the department and all appointments would be made on merit, the advisor assured the business community.
Waseem regretted that no efforts were made by the previous governments to improve the performance of the police department nor provided it with required equipment and better working environment. He admitted that there was lack of well-educated manpower, vehicles, arms, wireless system, mobile phones and other facilities in the department.
The government was catering motorcycles to police constables to improve their capability of fast movement and patrolling to control street crimes, he pointed out. The advisor said the department needed mobile vans, vigilance cameras and mobile phones for better performance. The government had imposed ban on Gutka, and was trying to implement it with full force, he maintained.
Speaking on the occasion, Chairman KITE Limited, Abdul Haseeb Khan said Korangi Industrial area comes in the jurisdictions of various police stations causing great trouble for the industrialists and demanded that all Korangi Industrial area should be brought under the jurisdiction of one police station. Welcoming the guests, Chairman Kati Masood Naqi stressed that the procedure for issuance of arms licenses should be simplified for industrialists.
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