Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government approves integrated security plan for prisons

The provincial cabinet of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday approved integrated security plan for the prisons and revitalisation of police force in the province. The meeting of the cabinet was held here with Chief Minister Pervez Khattak in the chair and attended by provincial ministers and administrative secretaries of the departments. The cabinet also made certain decisions and stressed the need for training and capacity building of both the police force and the jail security staff.
The Frontier Constabulary would be deployed and redeployed on the border between the settled and tribal areas. The meeting also decided to organise the police force and Frontier Constabulary as a fighting force to tackle terror related activities. The cabinet also decided to remove the weaknesses and deficiencies in the force and provided resources for the purpose.
It also decided to provide professional trainings to run and manage jails throughout the province on professional lines. The provincial cabinet regretted the jail breaks in the province and stressed to avert such like situation in the future. The police force and the Frontier Constabulary would jointly ensure foolproof security of jails. It further decided that Frontier Constabulary would be relegated to its original duties and it would be given modern age training.
The cabinet also agreed to raise the numerical strength of police force by providing additional manpower of 10504 police personnel which would cost 1781.685 million rupees and also approved the construction of 31 police posts costing 800 million rupees which would be completed at two phases. The first phase would cost 445 million. Addressing the cabinet the chief minister directed to cover the loopholes weaknesses and deficiencies in the over all security plans.
He said that the police force is responsible for the security of life and property of the people and must provide security to sensitive and important national installations. Earlier, the cabinet was given briefing on the law and order situation in the province.