KARACHI : Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said the Sindh police was one of the best forces in the world as they fought against terrorists, target killers and extortionist bravely. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe peace has not returned here easily but it has taken lives of our police, Rangers and Pak Army personnel and I salute the martyrs and pay rich tribute to the families of martyrs.\u201d <\/p>\n
He expressed these views while addressing the 40th batch of 760 passing out parade of police at Shaheed Benazir Bhutto ELITE Police Training Center on Thursday. The ceremony was attended by Inspector General Police Dr Kaleem Imam, Additional IG Dr Aftab Pathan, Commandant of Training Center Tanveer Otho and other concerned police officers.<\/p>\n
The Chief Minister said that the morale of Sindh police was down when PPP government had taken over in 2008. \u201cThe reasons behind low morale was targeted killing of policemen who had participated in operation clean up in Karachi, their salary structure was lower than the police force of other provinces, there was no solid compensation system for martyrs, the families of martyrs had no government patronage,\u201d he counted and said the provincial government had adopted a holistic approach to address the issue. <\/p>\n
Murad Ali Shah said that recruitments in police department were purely made on merit, designed best training courses for their capacity building, enhanced their salary structure and made it as par with the salaries of police in other provinces, enhanced compensation for martyrs, improved their health and educational services and then equipped them with best arms and ammunition. \u201cToday our police force is best in Pakistan and could be compared with any police force in the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSindh police is best in the world in the sense that it has fought bravely against terrorist, target killers, extortionists in the city and 2200 of them embraced shadat,\u201d he said and added \u201cI salute them and their families. \u201cWe have not left the families of martyrs alone but giving them salaries regularly apart from paying them compensation,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
The Chief Minister hoped that the batch of 760 policemen, including 148 women being passed out today would be a best addition in the police force. \u201cI have witnessed their abilities they demonstrated in their passing out programme \u2013 they are superb and well trained and I am sure they would deliver in the field,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis training center was established during 90s and so far it has produced a force of 50,000 policemen,\u201d he said and vowed to strengthen it further with auditorium and other required facilities. He also said that he would consider the proposal of establishing a Police Cadet College. Mr Shah also said that he was favourably considering the proposal of upgradation of constables from grade BPS-5 to 7, Head constables from BPS B-7 to 9 and ASI from grade B-7 to 11. <\/p>\n
The passing out policemen demonstrated their training skill and abilities to curb crime and handle sensitive situation. They presented guard of honour to the chief minister when he reached the center.<\/p>\n
The chief minister distributed certificates, medals and awards to the position holders of the training course. <\/p>\n
The IG Police and Commandant Training Center Taveer Odho also spoke on the occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KARACHI : Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said the Sindh police was one of the best forces in the world as they fought against terrorists, target killers and extortionist bravely. \u201cThe peace has not returned here easily but it has taken lives of our police, Rangers and Pak Army personnel and I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n