Daily Times

Sir: Police face what people fear and and in certain cases policemen sacrifice their lives for the safety of the people. These saviours of the people are being facilitated by Punjab government by upgrading their quality of service. Punjab government is earning much credit on its behalf by performing fresh creative tasks. An example is the addition of the Dolphin squad.

Dolphin force is established to combat street crime, road robbery, patrolling, watch and ward, surveillance, and quick response. This squad of the police force is built on the grounds and design of the Turk National Force, which was established in 1993 in Turkey to shape soft and friendly image of police among masses. Dolphin is the creature of very friendly nature and mixes up with human frequently and learns quickly with a very quick sharp sense of learning and helping. Dolphin squad is gifted to the people for bringing the same sense of friendship to be developed between police and people.

For the purpose 30 police officers under command of SP Qarar Hussain were sent to Istanbul, Turkey for training. The well trained returned officers, then, trained 700 police personals to serve in the Dolphin Force. Punjab government allocated 1992.3 million rupees in the first phase for infrastructure, machinery, weaponry, motorbikes and then 200 million rupees for divisional offices of the force in Model Town, Cantt, Sader, and Allama Iqbal Town. The Dolphin Squad is empowered with strength of 700 personals fully equipped with 300 motorbikes of 500CC power, waterproof uniform, telescope buttons, multicolor torches, heavy helmets with Bluetooth, 3G enabled ride communication system, pistols, rifles and duty bullets. This investment is an important step at modernising and upgrading police force for providing quality service, sense of security, and maintenance of law, order and peace to the masses. The government is also determined to recruit more sub inspectors, crime analysts, technical staff and 2416 constables to strengthen the Dolphin Squad. This squad is divided into 138 beats to patrol in the capital city for ensuring security and win the trust of people.

This new initiative has boosted up morale of police force and they are working more politely, obediently, efficiently with loyalty, intelligence, courage and have learnt well their utmost duty to protect lives of people. Though for decades efforts have been made to bridge gap between police and public but Punjab Government has earned much credit to stand champion of the task to shape police into a true friend of people by its friendly policies.

Police has sacrificed many lives in combating against the menace of terrorism. We must remember their sacrifice and appreciate the pro-people policies of Punjab government that are in place for the betterment of the country.

AFRAAZ ZAHRA

Lahore