Prison department staff to get elite allowance

LAHORE
The Punjab government has issued a notification for allocation of elite allowance to the staff of the Prison Department who have received training from Elite Police Training School.
According to a handout issued on Wednesday, the ratio of the elite allowance would be 40pc or more of the basic pay and the ration allowance of such officials has been raised to Rs 3,000 from Rs 1,000 as per notification SO (R&P) dated 2-3-2015. Those officials who are suspended or have been appointed as Officers on Special Duty or have been asked to report to Punjab Prisons Department or S&GAD on poor performance, negligence and violation of discipline or were on leave for more than four months, leave on education, training in foreign countries or had not completed Elite Training Course before 2012 or had not passed fitness test from Elite Police Training School or IG Prisons Department had not appointed them on some special duty, would be excluded from this privilege.
The Home Department has raised the number of employees of the Prisons Department who received training from Elite Police Training School from 100 to 200. Quota of promotion of such officials from warder to head-warders has been specified up to 10 pc. The Punjab government has amended the law for such officials. According to the law, a refresher course would be conducted from May 01-07, 2015 and those officials who did not pass this law would not be eligible for the elite allowance. Such refresher course would be conducted every year.
SEARCH OPERATION: Police claimed to have checked 4,534 people during a search operation and took action under Section 55/109 against 112 people. DIG Operations Dr Haider Ashraf said search operations were being held according to National Action Plan. These were being conducted for potential threats of terrorism. Special search operations were being held in Afghan majority areas of the city, he added. He said security was on high alert at the entry and exit points of the city.
HIT TO DEATH: A youth died while his cousin sustained injuries when a speeding oil tanker hit them in the limits of Chung police station on Wednesday.
Muneeb Javed and his cousin Ahmad Waqar were on their way on a bike when a recklessly driven oil tanker ran over them. As a result, both received injuries. They were rushed to a local hospital where Muneeb died. Police impounded the oil tanker and arrested the driver who was later identified as Haneef. Police handed over the body to the family.
FOUND DEAD: Two men were found dead in the limits of Gowalmandi police station on Wednesday. Some locals spotted the two bodies of men lying near an open drain and informed the police. Both the men, yet to be identified, were addicts who might have died of excessive use of drugs. Police shifted the bodies to morgue for autopsy to ascertain the cause of deaths.
Meanwhile, a 50-year-old man expired in a local hospital on Wednesday a few hours after his condition went critical due to some medical complications. The deceased identified as Tariq worked as a labourer in a local graveyard in the Mozang area. AS per SI Maqsood, Tariq visited a local hospital for medical treatment where he expired a few hours after his admission to the hospital. Police shifted the body to morgue.