Inspector General Police (IGP) Punjab Dr. Usman Anwar has launched the Friends of Police and Volunteers in Police initiatives with the aim to enhance interaction with the youth and strengthen relations with citizens as well. The inaugural ceremony of Friends of Police, Volunteers in Police initiatives was organised at Alhamra Hall here on Saturday by the Lahore Police. Students from various educational institutions, teachers, civil society representatives, eminent anchor persons and columnists participated in the ceremony.
IGP Usman Anwar presented badges of Friends of Police and Volunteers in Police to students and citizens.
While talking about the objectives of Friends of Police and Volunteers of Police programme, he said that the Punjab Police were rapidly moving towards achieving the aim of citizen centric police, and the Friends of Police and Volunteers in Police were latest initiatives that would prove important milestones towards community policing. The IGP said that under these programmes, young students were being made ambassadors of Punjab Police, which would strengthen the relationship between the police and the youth. The IGP said that study tours and visits to Special Initiative Police Stations, Khidmat Centres, Tahaffuz Marakaz and Meesaq Centres would be arranged for members of the Friends of Police and Volunteers in Police.
They would be provided complete information about police working, public service delivery and the challenges faced by the police in society. After seeing for themselves the police office working, these students would play their role as police ambassadors in society. The IGP said that all 735 police stations of Punjab were being upgraded to Special Initiative Police Stations, in Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala and Multan. The Punjab Police were building modern safe city projects with its own resources. These projects would speed up the process of changing the traditional police station culture and policing. It would improve the quality of services being provided to citizens in an optimal environment with the help of modern technology.
These projects would speed up the process of changing traditional police station culture and provide citizens with the best environment for policing and service delivery through the use of modern technology.
