Bahawalpur CPLC pattern to be emulated across Punjab

BAHAWALPUR: The Punjab Police have initiated a process to establish the Citizen Police Liaison Committees on the pattern of CPLC Bahawalpur throughout the province.

The Inspector General Police, Punjab, has directed all RPOs, CPOs; CCPOs and DPOs to provide their conceptual and technical input to operationlise the CPLCs to emulate the CPLC Bahawalpur.

This has been communicated to the police high-ups in a circular issued in this regard. “Under the dedicated and committed oversight of RPO Bahawalpur Dr Ehsan Sadiq, the CPLC through its sustained and effective community policing endeavour has reduced the crime ratio in Bahawalpur Range during the last decade.

“The incidence of crime stood at 31,994 in the year 2006 which gradually started declining during the preceding years and the incidence of crimes got drastically declined.

“The reduction of more than 5,829 crimes in 2015 in comparison to the quantum of crimes committed in 2016 is a practical manifestation of the crime free vision through the joint collaboration of Police Range Bahawalpur and the CPLC Bahawalpur.

“The CPLC Bahawalpur had achieved this well-coming performance of scaling down the quantum of crimes by organising various workshops; symposiums and seminars for enhancing capacity building of police officers and Victim Response officers throughout the region.