IG Punjab directs strict action against dolphin squad officials not following SOPs
Purpose of making dolphin force is to control street crimes and to promote community-based policing.
LAHORE (Dunya News) – Inspector General Punjab Police Captain (r) Arif Nawaz presided over a meeting to inspect the performance of dolphin force at central police office.
The IG said police officials not following the SOPs have no place in the department. He said it’s sad that a woman was killed due to firing of dolphin force officials.
He asserted that a strict departmental and legal action would be taken against those responsible for the tragic incident. He said the purpose of making dolphin force is to control street crimes and to promote community based policing.
IG Punjab said police officials are allowed to open fire only when they are attacked. He said police should give security to business centers along with patrolling.
The SP dolphin squad Bilal Zafar gave briefing on the performance of dolphin squad in the meeting. The IG was told that dolphin force personnel attend a four weeks refresher course every year and 2416 officials are performing their duties in 277 beats.
Earlier, the Nishtar Colony police arrested four personnel of the Dolphin Squad involved in the killing of a Christian woman who was riding a motorcycle with her minor daughter driven by her husband.
Victim’s husband Waris Masih said he and his five other family members riding two motorcycles were returning to their home in Youhannabad from the Punjab Institute of Cardiology when Dolphin Squad team No 192 opened indiscriminate fire on them near Bank Stop, Ashiana Road.
He said his wife, Nasreen, suffered a bullet injury in the head and she was taken to a nearby hospital where she died. He alleged the Dolphin Force officials did not help them but started misbehaving with them when they were shifting his injured wife to hspital.
