IGP orders thorough checking at inter-provincial checkpoints

LAHORE

Inspector General of Police Punjab, Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera Monday directed police field officers to thoroughly check all vehicles, motorcycles and people crossing inter-provincial checkpoints.

Chairing a high-level meeting held at Central Police Office, the IGP ordered prompt and indiscriminate action against people unable to prove their identity.

He directed staff working at checkpoints of Attock, Mianwali, Bhakkar and Rawalpindi to check carefully all vehicles, motorcycles and people passing the checkpoints.

He said women in burqas should be checked with utmost care and their feet should be first looked at as shoes can reveal their gender identity.

Directing the AIG Complaints, the IGP said strict action should be taken against the DSPs and SHOs who do not contact the complainant in time in response to the complaints registered through 8787 Complaint Centre.

Action should also be taken against the officers who, instead of personally contacting the complainant, ask their assistant or reader to respond. The IGP further said, the AIG Complaints should personally monitor the progress on complaints received through 8787 on daily basis and a weekly performance report should be submitted to him in this regard as well.

Additional IGP (Operations and Investigation) Punjab, Capt (retd) Arif Nawaz, Add: IGP PHP Amjad Javed Saleemi, Add: IGP Welfare and Finance, Shoaib Dastgir, DIG (Operations) Punjab, Aamir Zulfiqar Khan, DIG I.T Shahid Hanif, AIG Development, Kamran Khan, AIG Operations, Waqar Abbasi, AIG Logistics, Humayun Bashir Tarar, AIG Monitoring, Abdul Ghaffar Qaisrani, and AIG Complaints, Syed Khurram Ali also attended the meeting.

Briefing the meeting, Add: IGP PHP Amjad Saleemi said 31 stolen vehicles and motorcycles were recovered during checking on inter-provincial checkpoints from January 1 to February 18. He said one most-wanted criminal is also arrested from Mianwali checkpoint.

He said all inter-provincial checkpoints are being monitored online in Central Police Office. The IGP directed AIG Monitoring to personally take daily report regarding performance of personnel deployed on these checkpoints and to submit fortnightly report to him regularly.

Officials with excellent performance should be encouraged on every level, said the IGP.

Rescue-1122: The country head of United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), Pakistan, Ms Heli Uusikyla met Punjab Emergency Services (Rescue 1122) Director General Dr Rizwan Naseer and discussed progress of Disaster Response Force (DRF) that is in process of getting INSARAG (International Search and Rescue Advisory Group) International External Classification (IEC) as first Medium Search and Rescue Team of Pakistan and SAARC region.

The DG thanked the UN delegation for the service.

As Mr Ted Mentor has been and instrumental for standardizing the emergency response procedures and building up medium level response teams. He further requested to facilitate with technical expertise required for this certification as we are in final stage of this process and hopefully shall be classified in 2018 after submitting the Comprehensive Portfolio of Evidence (CPOE).

Ms Heli Uusikyla witnessed different ongoing training activities in the field of fire safety, search and rescue, emergency medical, water rescue and flood management etc on modern training simulators as per international guidelines and standards and appreciated the quality of training being imparted to rescuers by the Emergency Services Academy.

accidents: Some 751 road accidents are reported in the Provincial Monitoring Cell of Punjab Emergency Service (Rescue 1122) from 36 districts of the province during the last 24 hours.

Some nine people died and 601 suffered critical injuries and were shifted to different hospitals.

However, some 255 people who sustained minor injuries were discharged According to the data, 341 drivers, 22 underage drivers, 132 pedestrians and 392 passengers sustained injuries.

The statistics show 137 RTAs were reported in Lahore Control Room, which affected 135 persons placing Lahore at top of the list followed by 66 RTAs in Faisalabad with 86 victims and Multan remained at third position with 43 RTAs and 43 victims.

The details further show that 865 suffered injuries in the accidents including 675 males and 190 females.

According to the data, 602 motorbikes, 104 auto rickshaws, 78 motorcars, 45 vans, eight buses, 10 trucks and 101 other types of auto vehicles and slow moving carts were involved in aforesaid road traffic accidents.

LGH: Eleven Assistant Professors and 52 medical officers including women officers have been appointed in Lahore General Hospital. 

The appointments have been made to improve the medical care system and provision of medical facilities to patients at LGH. According to a press release, Post Graduate Medical Institute and Lahore General Hospital (PGMI/LGH) Principal Porf Ghiyas Un Nabi Tayyab, in a statement, said that shortage of doctors was felt for long due to increasing number of patients at LGH. The deficiency has now been met on the direction of the Punjab CM and Department of Specialised Health Care and Medical Education has issued appointment orders on ad-hoc basis for doctors to serve in the departments of ENT, Neuro-Surgery, Pathology, Radiology and Neurology.