PM Imran says model police station in Mianwali to prove exemplary for Punjab

An official briefs the prime minister at the model police station in Mianwali

MIANWALI: Prime Minister Imran Khan inaugurated a model police station in the city, saying that it will prove to be exemplary for the rest of Punjab.

The prime minister was speaking to participants of the inauguration event where he said the model police station will prove to be 'exemplary' for Punjab.

"This is a modern police station and wil facilitate people," he said. "Previously, politicians used to appoint their cronies to control police stations."

He said governance in the past 30 years had destroyed the police system in the country.

"We have to make Punjab Police a modern force," he said. "When we took over the government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the morale of the police was destroyed. We made KP police a non-political entity."

The prime minister said all one needed was the will to achieve and the rest followed. He urged IG Punjab to reform the police force, saying that the government will support him in doing so.

This is not the first time that the prime minister has spoken about reforming the Punjab Police. In January last year when four people, including two women, had been gunned down in the Sahiwal massacre, the premier had tweeted that he would “review the entire structure of Punjab police & start process of reforming it.”

In November, the Punjab Government made major changes to the police by shuffling DPOs and other police officials from one city to another.

Critics and opposition parties have, however, slammed the government for not doing enough to reform police in Punjab. 

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