Guidelines issued to make SHO appointments in Punjab police stations more transparent and merit based.
SHOs with poor service record and criminal cases should be removed by tomorrow.
Officers against whom criminal cases are pending or whose service record is poor should never be posted SHO.
An officer who has not worked in the Investigation Wing or Police Station for two years as an investigator should never be posted as SHO.
The concerned officers will have to get permission from the RPOs before the SHO can be removed from office before three months. IG Punjab.
Inspector General of Police Punjab Inam Ghani has said that the role of SHOs is crucial in implementing police reforms, changing police station culture and improving the working of police stations. Therefore, the deployment of SHOs should be made more transparent and merit based, for which detailed guidelines are being issued to eradicate crime from the society and expedite the process of providing service delivery to the citizens and resolving their problems as well as services of competent officers with excellent service record and good reputation may be benefitted. He further said that in all the districts of the province such officers against whom criminal cases are pending or whose service record is bad should never be posted as SHO and all command officers have been directed to remove SHOs having criminal cases and bad record from their posts by tomorrow and send report to Central Police Office. He further said that an officer who has not worked in the Investigation Wing or Police Station for two years as an investigator should never be posted as SHO, while It will be necessary for the concerned officer to seek permission from the RPO for removal of any SHO before the period of three months. He further said that if any CPO or DPO deviates from these guidelines and appoints SHO, the concerned RPO will be authorized to remove it while the officers concerned will have to be held accountable for deviating from the guidelines issued for the deployment of SHOs. He emphasized that the purpose of the guidelines was to ensure that the services of competent, honest and reputed officers should be utilized and they should be appointed to the posts of SHOs. Therefore, CCPO Lahore, all RPOs, CPOs and DPOs should ensure the deployment of SHOs under these instructions, he expressed these directions while instructing the officers and presiding over a meeting held at the Central Police Office here today. Relevant issues related to deployment of SHOs and further improvement in police station matters were discussed in detail in the meeting.
During the meeting, Additional IG Establishment Azhar Hameed Khokhar and all RPOs, CPOs and DPOs of the province presented their recommendations and suggestions regarding the appointment of SHOs. Instructing the officers, the IG Punjab said that from constable to officer level if there is any criminal case against them, they should be suspended immediately and it should be suspended from its post till the said officer or official is acquitted. He directed the DIG IT to add new monitoring features in the Central Database of Police Human Resources (Human Resource Management Information System) to make the deployment of SHOs more transparent,so that they may be benefitted in time of need.
Additional IG Establishment Azhar Hameed Khokhar, Additional IG Operations Sahibzada Shehzad Sultan, DIG Legal Jawad Ahmed Dogar, DIG, IT, Waqas Nazir and DIG R&D Shahid Javed alongwith other officers were present in the meeting while RPOs and DPOs participated through video link.
(Handout No. 62)
Nayab Haider
Director Public Relations
Punjab Police
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