Paperless policing and computerisation of all sections of police is the only source through which valuable time and money of people could be saved by providing them prompt and timely justice. This is the reason that the front desks’ staff is being empowered by de-linking them with the role of Moharar and SHOs in police stations, said Punjab Inspector General Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera while addressing a meeting at Central Police Office on Thursday.
The meeting was held to review the progress of computerisation and data entry process of HRMIS, Service Roles, Legal Branch, Biometric system, Police Website, Police Complaint Center (PCC), Finger Prints and other IT based initiatives. DIG Operations, Punjab, Amir Zulfiqar, DIG, IT, Shahid Hanif, DIG, Headquarters, BA Nasir, Addl IGP Operations / Investigation Punjab, Addl IGP Legal and other senior police officers of CPO attended th e meeting.
Briefing about the front desks, AIG Finance told the IGP that 1,234 more IT oriented officials for front desks have been hired through NTS under a very transparent procedure. These selected officials were included 132 Senior Stations Assistant and 1102 Police Station Assistant which will be appointed at rest of police station’s front desks of Punjab after completion of their medical, security and other verifications. Their training process will be completed very shortly told AIG Finance. Mushtaq Sukhera was briefed that under HRMIS system the service roles of the force is also being computerised. The meeting reviewed in detail the preparation of software for legal branch for which AIG Legal Ahsan Younas told the IGP that the disposal of the matters by the courts, alerts regarding implementation of court directions with legal time frame, data entry of decisions finalised by the honourable courts, history of the pending cases, status of the various petition’s Apps are being incorporated in this software, added AIG Legal. The PPO directed the legal department to expedite this data entry system so that all steps of criminal justice system could be settled to ensure the timely justice without wasting any time. Mushtaq Sukhera reviewed the performance of the PCC in detail. Briefing on this occasion, AIG Complaints told the IGP that during last 8 months the PCC has received 16,286 complaints through various sources. Among these 6,531 were received through 8787 call service, 4,402 through post, 1,276 by SMS, 2,553 by Khuli Kachehry, whereas, 1,524 though E-mail and other sources. Among received complaints 1,639 have been compromised whereas, the working on rest of 4,828 is under process, added the AIG complaints. The biometric system was also discussed in the meeting and DIG Operations, Lahore told the IGP about the progress of this system in all six divisions of Lahore.
(The News)
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