Punjab Government has accorded approval to the project of city crime management, traffic regulatory management and emergency service management for improving local policing and to control street crime across the province. Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif is much inspired from the British and Turkish infrastructure and governance. So the experts will be called from there to complete the project successfully.
This was disclosed by Minister for Environment Protection Colonel Shuja Khanzada (Retd), while presiding over a meeting of Police Reforms Committee at Lahore. He said that a command and control room will be established to monitor the roads and streets of the city.
In first phase these systems will be installed at four busy roads of Lahore, Mall Road, Jail Road, Ferozpur Road and Canal Road. With the installation of these modern systems, not only law and order situation but also traffic system will be improved, he added. While talking about police training and recruitments in the department the Minister said that now till onward recruitments in police will be on merit. And the period of police training has also been increased. He further said that police training institutes will be established on divisional level. To improve the investigation procedure amendments have been proposed in the Police Act 2002, he added.