Police assure protection to Peshawar business community

PESHAWAR: Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Muhammad Ali Gandapur on Friday said the protection and security of business community was the topmost priority of police and assured that policies would be devised in coordination with traders and other stakeholders.

The senior police officer said that steps were being taken for prevention of extortion and kidnapping for ransom incidents along with criminal activities in the provincial capital. He praised the business community’s sacrifices for sustainable peace and economic prosperity.

Ali Gandapur was addressing a gathering of traders at Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry. SCCI acting president Shahid Hussain chaired the meeting at the Chamber House .

SCCI vice-president Abdul Jalil Jan, former FPCCI president Ghazanfar Bilour, SSP Operations Zahoor Babar Afridi, SP Traffic Waseem Ahmad, Chairman SCCI Standing Committee on Law and Order Shaukat Ali Khan, former presidents Riaz Arshad, Malik Niaz Ahmad, Haji Mohammad Afzal, former SVP Ziaul Haq Sarhadi, Ex-VPs Malik Niaz Awan, Abidullah Khan Yousafzai and others were present at the meeting.

The CCPO said that coordination between SCCI, traders and police would be nurtured to resolve issues on prompt grounds. He said a comprehensive traffic management plan would be finalised in coordination with the business community soon to cope with increasing traffic congestion issues in the city.

He informed that the work of Safe City project was being carried out on fast track basis and most of issues of the business community would be resolved after its formal execution. Earlier, Shahid Hussain praised the sacrifices of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police during the war against terrorism and lauded the ongoing reforms initiated by police department.

He said that besides police, the business community had also rendered matchless sacrifices in war against terrorism and the worst affected by lawlessness, incidents of extortion and kidnapping. He demanded the police to take prompt notice of any extortion call to traders and action against such callers.