The number of citizens benefiting from police service centers has increased by 200,000 this year as compared to last year.
So far this year, more than 710,548 citizens have benefitted from facilities of Police Service Centers across the province.
Medico-Legal Certificates were issued to 98540 persons from service counters of District and Tehsil Hospitals of the province.
All RPOs and DPOs should make their district service centers more functional and ensure provision of best services to citizens. IG Punjab
Inspector General of Police Punjab Rao Sardar Ali Khan said that the role of Police Service Centers is very effective to end traditional police station culture and provide state of the art environment for citizens in order to take benefit of more than one dozen services under one window policy.
IG Punjab directed all RPOs and DPOs to pay attention to the monitoring and inspection process to further improve performance of Police Service Centers in their districts and undertake pertinent measures for improvement in the light of feedback received from citizens. Rao Sardar Ali Khan said that the advertisement campaign of visit schedule in different districts of mobile service centers should be intensified so that more and more citizens could avail fast track service in their areas.
Spokesperson Punjab Police said that the number of citizens benefiting from Police Service Centers has increased by 200,000 this year as compared to last year. He said that 102 police service centers, 130 police service counters and 29 mobile service centers were functioning across province where citizens were provided with more than 14 services i.e character certificate, general police verification, tenancy registration, vehicle verification, disappearance report, crime report, crime report against women, FIR copy, learner's driving license, renewal of regular driving license, duplicate driving license and license renewal. Spokesperson Punjab Police has said that citizens have availed more than 710548 services out of which 214517 persons have been issued character certificates and 246750 persons have undergone general police verification. The Punjab Police spokesperson further said that Medico-Legal Certificates have been issued to 98540 persons from Police Service Counters in District and Tehsil Hospitals across Punjab. Regarding the performance of service centers in Lahore, the Punjab Police spokesman said that 8 police service centers, 13 police service counters and 1 mobile service center van are providing facilities to the citizens in Lahore. In service centers of Lahore, 74053 citizens have benefited this year out of which 26034 character certificates, 23751 general police verification and 17679 people have been issued medicolegal certificates.
(Handout No. 314)
Osama Mehmood
Director Public Relations
Punjab Police
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