Police Punjab Inspector General Inam Ghani on Wednesday said that the Lahore police had a central position and status in the department, so it has to use modern inform
ation technology to improve its professional affairs, especially the performance of the Investig
ation Wing and make full use of available resources according to modern policing. He said that the best policy to curb crime was to bring the accused to book by speeding up the working out of cases and in this regard the provision of all necessary resources and facilities to the investigati
ng officers should be ensured on priority basis.
He further said that there should be a significant increase in already total 4,177 officers of Investig
ation Wing in accordance with the increasing number of cases whereas, the provision of computers, printers, locators and other resources to the Investig
ation Wing should be ensured on priority basis. He further said that the first batch o
f new vehicles provided by the Punjab government should be handed over to Lahore Police as soon as possible after completion of hood install
ation while CCPO Lahore, to improve the performance of Investig
ation Wing should ensure provision of the first consignment of vehicles to the Investig
ation Wing.
He further said that more resources and facilities should be provided to the investig
ation police in the police stations with high crime rate while compe
tent and educated personnel should be deployed in the investig
ation to reduce the pressure of cases on the investigati
ng officers. He further said that, close liaison should be maintained with the concerned agencies including the Home Department for revoc
ation of firearms licenses issued by provincial or federal agencies and timely steps should be taken for revoc
ation of such licenses by keeping close coordination. He issued these instructions while presiding over an important meeting on up grad
ation of investig
ation matters of Lahore Police at Central Police Office Lahore. On this occasion, DIG Investig
ation Lahore Sharaq Jamal gave briefing on investig
ation matters, performance and required resources of Lahore Police.
Briefing IG Punjab, DIG Investig
ation Lahore Sharaq Jamal said that Lahore Police is working day and night to ensure effective use of modern technology for crime control and arrest of criminals and in accordance with the vision and instructions of IG Punjab. Intelligence-based operations and counter-insurgency operations will be made more effective. He added that special teams have been formed to nab drug dealers, street criminals and criminals involved in s
erious crimes, whose performance is being monitored on a daily basis while tightening the noose around the scoundrels of the society intelligence based operations are being intensified for this purpose.
IG Punjab while instructing the command officers said that they should pay attention to digital monitoring of investig
ation stages of all cases with the help of modern monitoring software and anti-social elements hostile to the lives and property of the people. Additional IG Operations Sahibzada Shehzad Sultan, CCPO Lahore Ghulam Mahmood Dogar, DIG R&D Shahid Javed, DIG Investig
ation Lahore Sharaq Jamal, SSP Investig
ation Lahore Abdul Ghaffar Qaisrani, AIG Operations Ghazi Salahuddin and other officers were present.