In order to re-activate and made more functional to Anti-Riot force, the training of 1100 police officials under the supervision of 40 master trainers will be completed by the end of September 2016. Moreover, to ensure the 100% provision of justice to the people, the investigation officers will be given the latest forensic science training.
This was disclosed in a meeting held under the chairmanship of Inspector General of Police Punjab, Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera at Central Police Office, Lahore, today. Addl: IGP Training, Capt. (R) Usman Khattak, Addl: IGP Welfare and Finance, Sohail Khan, Addl: IGP Operations / Investigations, Capt. (R) Arif Nawaz, Addl: IGP Special Branch Punjab, Faisal Shahkar, Commandant P.C, Hussain Asgher and other senior police officer were also present in the meeting.
During the meeting, Addl: IGP Training, Capt. (R) Usman Khattak briefed the IGP that these 40 master trainers get training from Turkish experts who are imparting training to these official at Police Training School, these days. He further said that the psychological profiling of these trainees is also being carried on.
During another meeting with 8 members delegation of forensic experts headed by Coordinator of Forensic Sciences, Dr. Muhammad Zahid Qureshi of Government College, Lahore. IGP said that their proposals regarding the forensic training of the police officers will be considered very seriously. He said that the investigation officers must have the forensic training, specially the protection of crime scene, securing the evidences on crime scene, examination, documentation, scene sketching and submit in laboratory.
The Government College delegation offered their expertise in this behalf with a detailed training process and modules to the IGP. Mushtaq Sukhera directed the Addl: IGP Training to coordinate with the GC’s experts to finalize the strategy in this regard.
(Handout No. 125)
Source: Director Public Relations, Punjab Police.
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