Daily Times

LAHORE: Following the recent terrorists attack in Police Training College, Quetta, Punjab Inspector General of Police Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera has ordered four layers of security for all police training colleges and centers.

He also directed the police officials to conduct regular combing operations around these training institutes. On October 24, at least 63 security personnel were martyred when terrorists stormed the Police Training College, Quetta.

While chairing a meeting held at the Central Police Office on Friday to review security arrangements of police training colleges and centres across the province, the IG directed to further improve the inside and outside patrolling system of the police training centres. He said that concerned regional and district police officers should ensure at least two surprise visits a week to check security and to brief the deployed police officials about the sensitivity of their responsibilities.

He said monitoring and control rooms of all training centres should be more active and commandant or principal of the training centre should ensure security arrangements by making at least three visits in a week at different times during night.

The IG said police personnel deputed for security of training institutes should be fit, active and of not more than 30 years of age. “Duty hours should not be more than nine hours and it should be scheduled in three hours duty and three hours rest break down. Bulletproof jackets and helmets should be provided on priority and security officials and snipers should be deployed on rooftops of barracks and lecture halls of training institutes. Regular firing practice of police officials deployed on security duty should be ensured. Importance should be given to bunkers and vantage points and deployment of LMG armed snipers in these bunkers and vantage points should be ensured. Automatic weapons and binoculars should be provided to security officials deployed at OP check posts,” he added.

The police chief also said panic button and siren horns should be operational in all police training colleges and centres.