Salah-ud-Din Khan Mehsud assumed charge of Inspector General of Police (IGP) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Friday in an informal ceremony held at Central Police Office (CPO) Peshawar Friday. On arrival to the Central Police Office he was received by DIG Head Quarters. A smart contingent of police presented guard of honour to him. On this occasion he also laid floral wreath on Yadgar-e-Shuhadda police at CPO and offered fateha for the police shuhadda.
Later, presiding over an introductory meeting of high ranking police officers posted in CPO he said "we must stand up as a team and everyone has to contribute to see the force successful in this testing time; we all should be loyal to the state and focused on our job and everything should be done in a very transparent and ordinary manner and we must come up to the attached expectations of the general public through better service delivery".
He also paid rich tributes to the precious sacrifices of the force by saying that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police was brave and committed force and have written the golden history of police with their blood. "I am proud to lead this force and we must learn from their sacrifices by exhibiting valour, courage, devotion to duty and contribute for betterment of the society," remarked the IGP and added for this we need hard work, sincerity, integrity and total commitment to follow the foot prints of these great police heroes.
He assured that every individual would be valued for his best efforts and meaningful contribution for the force and vowed that no efforts would be spared for the welfare of the force particularly of low ranking officials.