PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan on Friday expressed concern about the targeted killing of police personnel in the province and called for a `workable` action plan to check those attacks.

A statement issued here said that Mr Mahmood was chairing a meeting here regarding law and order.

The participants reviewed the current security situation in the province with a special focus on the increasing targeted killings of police personnel in different parts of the province and took decisions to devise strategy to prevent such incidents.

Special assistant to the chief minister Barrister Mohammad Ali Saif, provincial police chief Moazzam Jah Ansari, principal secretary to the CM Amjad Ali Khan and other senior police of ficials attended the meeting.

The chief minister expressed concern over the martyrdom of police personnel in different places of the province and said peace was indispensable for the development and prosperityof the province.

`Maintaining law and order is the first priority of my government. We will make no compromise on law and order, he said.

Mr Mahmood directed the relevant authorities for the result-oriented efforts to stop targeted killing of policemen and said all authorities of police should sit together and come up with a comprehensive and workable action plan for the purpose.

He paid tribute to the police personnel over their sacrifices for peace and said people and government of the province were proud of them.

`Police personnel are facing the situation with great bravery and dedication,` he said.

The chief minister directed the relevant authorities to take measures to check the incidents of target killing of police personnel.

The chief minister said his government would provide all resources required by the police for the purpose on priority.

He said such killings couldn`t be tolerated anymore and the morale of police officials performing their duties in the field at all costs.

Mr Mahmood urged the regional police officers and district police officers to go to their subordinates in the field to boost their morale instead of sitting in their of fices `all the time`.

He also ordered the implementation of standard operating procedures for the movement of police personnel and said possible threats to the lives of police personnel should be assessed for their protection, while intelligence mechanism of the police should be made more efficient for the purpose.