Will take services to people’s doorsteps
IGP reveals plan to mark each union parishad a police beat
Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed yesterday said every union parishad will be marked as a police beat to take services to people's doorsteps.
A police officer will be given charge of each beat to keep in touch with people and solve their problems, he added. The IGP said this while talking to chiefs of police units through video conferencing.
The IGP, however, said police members must be free from drugs to make it "people's police", according to a press release sent by Police Headquarters.
"No policeman will take drugs, be involved with drugs trade or have relations with drug dealers," he said.
Benazir said he would not accept police members' involvement with corruption. "If someone wants to be rich by corruption, they should quit his job," he said.
Referring to police service during the pandemic, Benazir said people do not have to come to police; police members have gone to the people and served them, going beyond their line of duty.
"We've delivered food, made arrangements for travel, and harvesting paddy. Police members have arranged burial and cremation when relatives of the deceased, infected with Covid-19, did not come near them," he said.