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KP police stations, posts to have modern facilities

2015-10-14
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Tuesday announced to convert all 282 police stations and police posts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa into modern facilities on the lines of the model police stations established in Peshawar and cedain other cities of the province.

He was chairing a meeting held here to review the proposed amendments in the Police Act.

Senior Local Government Minister Inayatullah Khan, Senior Minister for Health and Information Technology Shahram kahan Tarakai, Minister for Education Atif Khan, Minister for Public Health Shah Farman, MPA Aneesa Zeb Tahirkheli, Chief Secretary Amjad Ali Khan and IGP Nasir Khan Durrani were among those in attendance.

Mr Khattak also formed a four-member committee to examine legal implications of the amendments in the Police Act suggested by the cabinet`s sub-committee and the police department.

The chief minister stressed the need for devising a foolproof, smooth and independent system to deal with postings, transfers and appraisal of the civil servants.

The meeting constituted a committee headed by the senior local govemment minister to suggest civil services reforms or amendments in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Civil Servants Act.

Mr Khattak directed the police department to establish its own traffic engineering department and asked the relevant authorities to prepare PC-1 for renovating all police stations of the province and equipping them with latest facilities and trained and well mannered police officials. APP