Police School of Investigations improves conviction rate on February 13, 2020A first-ever and modern School of Investigation has improved the conviction rate in criminal cases by more than 6 percent in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. This was declared during a briefing, attended by KP police chief Sanaullah Abbasi, Justice System Support Program (JSSP) National Team Leader Neil Fouler and other officials. JSSP is a project, funded by […]
KP IG conducts first formal visit to North Waziristan border on February 9, 2020Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police chief Sanaullah Abbasi on Saturday visited North Waziristan tribal district and Ghulam Khan border – said to be the first ever formal visit by an IGP to the Waziristan border region. North Waziristan is one of the tribal districts that were federally administered tribal areas but recently merged into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. […]
Call to join hands against abuse of crystal meth on January 31, 2020Students listened attentively to speeches at a ceremony at the lawns of Government Degree College in Garhi Kapura village as the sunlight kept the venue warm on Thursday after a few days of rain showers in the region. Abdullah, one of the students, decided to convince his father to stop smoking hashish as soon as […]
KP launches Victim Support Services for women, child victims of violence on January 25, 2020Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has got a first of its kind project titled “Victim Support Services”, aimed at caring for the women and juvenile victims of violence. The project, launched at the Central Police Office (CPO), is being supported by the UK’s Department for International Development. Under the project, women police officers have been trained by the […]
Police get tourniquets for the first time to save lives on January 24, 2020For the first time, the city patrol force in Peshawar has been equipped with tourniquet, a medical device which can save the lives of injured people in emergency situations and accidents. A tourniquet is a medical device, which limits the blood flow by applying pressure to a limb or extremity. Usually, the device is used […]
KP govt to regularise services of over 9,000 cops on January 19, 2020Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has decided regularize more than 9,000 policemen who had been recruited on contracts several years ago in different districts of the province. An official told Daily Times that these contract policemen, called the special police officers, were employed to assist the regular police in fighting terrorism in the days when terrorism and bomb […]
Police solve Sikh youth’s murder case on January 11, 2020After four days of investigations, the police solved the blind murder case of a Sikh youth, and declared that the deceased’s fiancée was behind the killing. The Indian government led by Narendra Modi recently tried to portray the case as a religiously motivated killing. However, investigations proved otherwise. The body of Ravinder Singh, 25, hailing […]
Peshawar begins first sterilisation project of stray dogs on January 6, 2020For the first time, several departments have jointly started a project of sterilization of stray dogs, which would not only protect people’s lives but would also control the population of the dogs wandering in the city. The Peshawar district administration, the livestock department, Water and Sanitation Services Peshawar (WSSP) and Peshawar Development Authority (PDA) are […]
Tumultuous KP gets fourth IG in less than two years on January 2, 2020While Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is facing the challenge of merged tribal areas’ administration besides other issues, the government posted a new police inspector general (IG) in the province on Wednesday. Sanaullah Abbasi, a Grade-21 officer, has been named the new IG, replacing Naeem Khan, a grade-22 officer of the Police Service of Pakistan. According to a […]
24 nabbed during crackdown on street crimes in Peshawar on December 31, 2019In a crackdown on street crime, Capital City Police have busted seven gangs and arrested 24 of their members, allegedly involved in snatching expensive phones at gunpoint and sending them onwards to Afghanistan for sales. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Operations Zahoor Babar Afridi told media at a news conference that the police teams also […]