Where's Punjab Police HQ? Lahore!

N C Bipindra / TNN / Feb 19, 2006, 00:01 IST

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Musharraf is angry with the Punjab cops. For 50 years, they have not sent the daily report to their Lahore counterparts.

CHANDIGARH: General Pervez Musharraf is very angry with the Punjab Police. For over 50 years, the department has not been sending its daily station report to Lahore police headquarters, and he��s not going to put up with it any more.
Before that quizzical eyebrow goes up any further, let��s set the record straight. The Pakistani president is not angry �� in fact, he probably doesn��t even know about it �� but the Punjab Police is violating procedure by not keeping in daily touch with Lahore. Because that��s what the Punjab Police Rules of 1914 stipulate, and the document has remained as it is all these years �� unchanged and technically still in force.
"It is quite embarrassing if we look at the Police Rules as they exist today," said a senior officer in Chandigarh on Saturday. "Despite half-a-dozen commissions being set up to revise the law, starting from the Dharam Vira Committee of 1977-79 to the Malimath Commission of 2003, the political class has remained unmoved. There is a need to change the police laws."
He has a point. According to the gazette, Punjab Police personnel and their family members still need to get themselves vaccinated for smallpox every seven years. What��s more, every SSP is supposed to devote half the year to tour the countryside �� on horseback, that is. An expensive proposition? No problem. He will be given a princely sum of Rs 600. With that, he��s supposed to buy the horses �� "14 hands and one inch in height" �� and saddlery.

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