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By Razaullah Khan
Police play a key role in the prevention of crimes such as abduction, murder, dacoits and other social evils. When Imran khan came to power in Khyber-Pakhtunkwa, he directly started work on police enhancement. After the passage of one year,and the establishment of City Patrol Police, he claimed that the KPK Police is able to control and respond to terrorist activities in time and is free of corruption. Unfortunately, he failed to achieve in four years what he promised in the first year.
Firstly, it is the duty of military and paramilitary forces to respond and control terrorist activities. Police department’s duty is to eliminate drug trade, robbery, dacoity and abduction. Here, I collected data from Pakistan Bureau of Statistics in which the crimes were increased.
In 2013 where 3,163 people were murdered in KPK while in 2014 it was increased up to 3,184.Similarly in 2013, 1137 people were abducted from different areas of KPK while in 2014 the rate went to 1277 people. The rate of kidnaping in 2015 was 1,165 while in 2016, it was increased to 1,214. The above mentioned data clearly shows that KPK Police is still not able to eliminate basic crimes from society.
Secondly, many incidents occurred in which the police did not show decent performance such as in the case of Hina Shah Nawaz who was killed by a relative in Kohat to which police did not lodge an FIR(First Information Report) properly,thus failing to apprehend the culprits in time –the case is still unknown to general public. Recently,Asma Rani was killed in Kohat.She was a medical student in Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad. In this case,the police once again failed to arrest the culprit in time, while one of the culprits named Mujahid had left the country and escaped to Saudi Arabia. These instances show that the police lack the basic capacity to arrest culprits in time and put them behind bars.
Thirdly, we have heard many times that KPKPolice is free from corruption and is accountable to general public. As far as the question of corruption is concerned, I can confidently say that instead of decreasing, corruption is reaching its peak. In my own district,Lakki Marwat, the drug trade is increasing day by day and the selling of drugs is a common profession of every individual. Is it possible to sell drugs without police dealing and involvement? Are the police unaware about the increasing of drug trade in the area?No, the police are directly in contact with drug dealers and receiving monthly charges from these dealers. Recently, when I passed few comments onLakkiMarwatPolice page on Facebook, about the increasing of drug trade in the area, my comments were deleted and I found myself blocked from their page. Instead of taking action against those drug dealers they wish to keep this subject matter brushed under the carpet. If KPK Police is not able to take constructive comments from the very people they apparently wish to protect people, then how they will take action? It means that there is no external accountability to facilitate general public while the accountability of police is just another tall claim.
However, it must be noted that the establishment of City Patrol Police in a Peshawar city is a very good step taken by provincial government. The police are present at every entrance and exit point of the city to check activities of people on a regular basis. This one improvement does not take away from Imran Khan’s inability to maintain basic social order in other police departments. It may be very difficult for Imran Khan to win next elections from Khyber Pakhtunkwa and other parts of the country,due to his own incompetency and unfulfilled promises.
http://blogs.dunyanews.tv/20245/
Police play a key role in the prevention of crimes such as abduction, murder, dacoits and other social evils. When Imran khan came to power in Khyber-Pakhtunkwa, he directly started work on police enhancement. After the passage of one year,and the establishment of City Patrol Police, he claimed that the KPK Police is able to control and respond to terrorist activities in time and is free of corruption. Unfortunately, he failed to achieve in four years what he promised in the first year.
Firstly, it is the duty of military and paramilitary forces to respond and control terrorist activities. Police department’s duty is to eliminate drug trade, robbery, dacoity and abduction. Here, I collected data from Pakistan Bureau of Statistics in which the crimes were increased.
In 2013 where 3,163 people were murdered in KPK while in 2014 it was increased up to 3,184.Similarly in 2013, 1137 people were abducted from different areas of KPK while in 2014 the rate went to 1277 people. The rate of kidnaping in 2015 was 1,165 while in 2016, it was increased to 1,214. The above mentioned data clearly shows that KPK Police is still not able to eliminate basic crimes from society.
Secondly, many incidents occurred in which the police did not show decent performance such as in the case of Hina Shah Nawaz who was killed by a relative in Kohat to which police did not lodge an FIR(First Information Report) properly,thus failing to apprehend the culprits in time –the case is still unknown to general public. Recently,Asma Rani was killed in Kohat.She was a medical student in Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad. In this case,the police once again failed to arrest the culprit in time, while one of the culprits named Mujahid had left the country and escaped to Saudi Arabia. These instances show that the police lack the basic capacity to arrest culprits in time and put them behind bars.
Thirdly, we have heard many times that KPKPolice is free from corruption and is accountable to general public. As far as the question of corruption is concerned, I can confidently say that instead of decreasing, corruption is reaching its peak. In my own district,Lakki Marwat, the drug trade is increasing day by day and the selling of drugs is a common profession of every individual. Is it possible to sell drugs without police dealing and involvement? Are the police unaware about the increasing of drug trade in the area?No, the police are directly in contact with drug dealers and receiving monthly charges from these dealers. Recently, when I passed few comments onLakkiMarwatPolice page on Facebook, about the increasing of drug trade in the area, my comments were deleted and I found myself blocked from their page. Instead of taking action against those drug dealers they wish to keep this subject matter brushed under the carpet. If KPK Police is not able to take constructive comments from the very people they apparently wish to protect people, then how they will take action? It means that there is no external accountability to facilitate general public while the accountability of police is just another tall claim.
However, it must be noted that the establishment of City Patrol Police in a Peshawar city is a very good step taken by provincial government. The police are present at every entrance and exit point of the city to check activities of people on a regular basis. This one improvement does not take away from Imran Khan’s inability to maintain basic social order in other police departments. It may be very difficult for Imran Khan to win next elections from Khyber Pakhtunkwa and other parts of the country,due to his own incompetency and unfulfilled promises.
http://blogs.dunyanews.tv/20245/
