The $140m PSCA programme is grappling with many issues these days due to lack of interest of the current management to run the mega project, according to sources. Photo courtesy: PSCA website
LAHORE: Once termed a game-changer in safety, security and traffic management, the Punjab Safe City Authority (PSCA) project has reportedly started fading due to management problems, absence of the career structure for employees and persistently deteriorating work environment for them.
The $140m PSCA programme is grappling with many issues these days due to lack of interest of the current management to run the mega project, according to sources.
Another squad to police Lahore’s streets
PSCA, Dolphin Squad have made claims of eradicating street crime from provincial capital
Lahore Dolphin Force. PHOTO: FACEBOOK
LAHORE:
The issue of launching another patrolling force named ‘Ababeel Squad’ to curb street crimes in Lahore is not just a matter of the addition of a new wing in capital city police.
Rather, it is the realisation of the failure of Punjab Safe City Authority (PSCA), Dolphin Squad and Police Response Unit (PRU), the prior initiatives launched by Lahore Police, that too not more than five years ago and after the spending of billions of rupees.
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Punjab Inspector General of Police Inam Ghani posted two superintendents of police (SPs) back in the provincial capital. Photo courtesy Punjab police Facebook/File
LAHORE: Punjab Inspector General of Police Inam Ghani posted two superintendents of police (SPs) back in the provincial capital, who were ‘expelled’ from the city following ‘conflict’ with the then Lahore Capital City Police Officer Umar Sheikh.
Another SP who was posted in Lahore on the ‘recommendation’ of Mr Sheikh has been transferred to Gujranwala.
In a province-wide reshuffle, the IGP Punjab also transferred and posted an additional inspector general of police and 12 other SPs.
Internal Accountability Branch Additional IG Ghulam Rasool Zahid (BS-21) has been transferred and posted as commandant of the Police College Sihala against a vacant post.
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