A team of American Police professionals will impart training to the officers of National Highways and Motorway Police (NH&MP) to combat crime and terrorism, besides controlling law and order situation on motorways/highways.
It was agreed in a meeting held here on Tuesday in which Mark Hunter Head of Police/Anti-Terrorism Division of US Embassy, Jeff Thomas, Scott Moretty, Head of Mobile Security Division and Robert A. Clark, Programme Manager on Police Training and Inspector General (IG) NH&MP Dr Wasim Kausar participated.
They also visited the headquarters of NH&MP, where they discussed different training programmes, which can be imparted to motorway police. Dr Wasim Kausar and the members of American team discussed various training issues. They praised the performance of the motorway police and said that the NH&MP has been recognised world-wide and its officers established it as an Institution.
Mark Hunter said although the NH&MP is excellent in traffic handling issues but it has also showed excellent performance in combating crime and numerous terrorism activities on Highways. He said that due to the present environment of Pakistan, it is necessary to provide them training, so that they could handle any criminal activity with more professionalism.
IGP informed them that the motorway police had provided training to other such police departments and the people are feeling positive results in some cities. Waseem gave a briefing on the working of the NH&MP to American delegation and said that NH&MP introduced a successful soft policing in Pakistan.
He said that NH&MP has planned to impart training to SAARC countries and in first phase the traffic police of Maldives and Bangladesh are due in near future, which would be given training in NH&MP training Institute at Sheikhupura. The IGP directed the DIG training of NH&MP to make training courses in consultation with Clark, Programme Manager, for the officers of NH&MP. The American police will train them and later on the officers of NH&MP may be sent to US for further training.
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