Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister Kamran Bangash Tuesday informed the provincial assembly that the government has recently issued a notification in which the powers of District Police Officer (DPO) in the merged districts were transferred to the Deputy Commissioners as Justice of Peace Committee.
Responding to a point of order of an Independent Candidate in the assembly Mir Kalam, he said that under the notification a Peace Committee would be established in every merged district and DC would lead the committee as Justice.
He said that the government did not curtail the power of police rather it was an attempt to strengthen the Jirga system as per the tradition of the tribal society, adding that there was a complete Jirga system in the merged districts and if someone had any complaint with police he/she could contact the Jirga for redressal of the complaint.—APP
