Karachi police asked to issue clearance certificates for municipal officers’ appointments

The Sindh Local Government Board has requested the Karachi police for issuance of police clearance certificates to municipal officers and assistant account officers.

Officials said on Saturday that the Sindh Local Government Board has issued a letter recently to DIGs and SSPs in Karachi with the subject ‘Police verification for appointment as municipal officers (BPS-17) and assistant account officers in Sindh Council unified grade service’.

They added that the SSPs will issue police certificates to 419 municipal officers and 117 assistant account officers, and medical certificates to civil surgeons and medical superintendents.

The letter issued by Sindh Local Government Board reads, “It is submitted that on the recommendation of the Sindh Public Service Commission, the offer letters have been issued in respect of 419 (Municipal Officer) conveyed vide SPSC’s letter and 117 (Assistant Accounts Officer) conveyed vide SPSC’s letter.

“According to Rule 10 of the Constitution and Regulation of the Sindh Council Unified Grade Service Rules, 2020, no person shall be appointed, unless he produces Police Verification Certificate and no person convicted by any Court of law shall be appointed to service. Thus, the candidates have been directed to furnish their police verification and they will approach to you, accordingly. I am therefore directed to request you for necessary verification on personal appearance of the candidates on urgent basis and forward a copy of the same to the Sindh Local Government Board, please.”

Earlier, the Sindh local government had also requested the removal of encroachments from all roads and had also requested the local police to assist.

The letter reads, “Your good-self is well aware that as provided under Schedule-II, Part-I (13) of Sindh Local Government Act-2013, the work of removal of encroachment, including recovery from pertaining heads from all over Karachi City within KMC limits (internal and external road, except land owned by the Cantonment Boards) is the mandate of Anti- Encroachment Department, KMC.

“The previous District Administration as well as the newly elected Chairman’s of TMCs were time and again intimated and requested to kindly restrain from interfering in the official duties of Anti Encroachment Department, KMC, but it is regretfully apprised to your good-self that the Officers and Officials of various TMCS are violating the Sindh Local Government Act-2013 continuously and creating hurdles in the official work of the Anti- Encroachment Department, KMC, which is causing great financial loss to KMC exchequer.

“In order to avoid deviation from the ibid Rules, you are requested to issue strict directives to the concerned officers and officers of your establishment not to interfere in the official work of the Anti- Encroachment Department, KMC, being as a statuary domain of KMC, defined under Schedule-V, Part-I of the Sindh Local Government Act-2013 and restrain from unnecessary correspondence in this regard.”