LAHORE:Inspector General of Police Punjab Rao Sardar Ali Khan said on Wednesday the number
of investigation officers would be increased in proportion to the number of cases to balance
the workload in police stations.
He said this while presiding over an plenary session on Investigation and operations
matters here at the Central Police Office.
The IGP directed the RPOs and DPOs to ensure special focus and resources on operations
as well as investigation wing and run official matters in accordance with modern practice.
He said that refresher courses should be conducted in line with modern requirements to
accelerate capacity of investigation officers.
The IGP emphasised upon investigation officers to pay special attention to each case. He said
that modern professional training would be imparted for timely completion of challan and safe
archiving and presentation of evidence in a scientific manner so that investigation officers
could perform their duties effectively.
He said that real formula for crime control was to convict culprits through best investigation
of cases and the Punjab Police were taking preferential measures in this regard.
The IGP said that investigation officers should perform their duties with utmost diligence and
with the help of modern forensic science so that the process of rooting out criminals and
provision of justice to citizens could be expedited.
Rao Sardar Ali Khan said the performance of investigation section of all the districts would
be reviewed in a meeting to be held on a monthly basis.
Additional IG Operations, Additional IG Investigation, DIG Operations and DIG Investigation
and other officers were present in the meeting.