News Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Strengthening the office of the Station House Officer (SHO), the Federal Capital Police have been reframed at the police station echelon and empowered the SHO as the focal authority of the police station, the top cop, said in a document issued from the office of the Inspector General of Police Islamabad.
At the same time, the SHO will be the Chief Investigation Officer (CIO) at the police station level under section 156 CrPC and Chapter 25 of the Police Rules. Station House Officer (SHO) will be Incharge Investigation and will be responsible and answerable for the entire affairs of the Police Station including crime control and investigation and other relevant responsibilities of the police station. He will supervise Incharge Operations and Incharge Administration as SHO. The people engaged in framing the basic structure of the Police Station Reforms said that multiple Units have been constituted to thoroughly examine the heinous offences committed against the minors women.
Capital Investigation Branch (CIB), Investigation Technical Experts Unit (ITEU), Criminal Record Unit (CRU), Crime Scene Unit (CSU), Finger Print Unit (FPU), Digital Expert Unit (DEU), Legal Expert Unit (LEU), Court Compliance Unit (CCU), Robbery Dacoity Unit (RDU), Anti-Vehicle Lifting Unit (AVLU), Homicide Investigation Unit (HIU), Special Sexual Offences Investigation Unit (SSOIU), Juvenile and Gender Protection Unit (J&GPU), Anti-Blasphemy Unit (ABU) have been constituted under the higher ranking commands to ensure spotless investigation of the cases at individual levels. In the specific areas of investigation, the SHO has been empowered to investigate under Section 156 of the Cr.PC and Chapter 25 of the Police Rules.
“Attention has been drawn by the higher judiciary to focus on the paradigm of exploration to improve the standard of investigation without prioritizing the vested interests. The reason for the non-standard, poor and regrettable investigation in critical or routine cases, is that investigating officers are not experts in every kind of case and the IO investigates different types of cases at the same time and mostly becomes subjective during the course of the investigation, cause damaging the investigation, as the cases of clashes, killings and hurting,” the report said, adding the inquiries and investigation of theft, robbery and dacoities could not be tackled and proved without having expertise in dealing with such crimes and one should not expect the quality and result oriented investigation of the cases from any investigating officer in the prevailing situation.
