Muhammad Azam Nagra
In Pakistan, police is a word, which arises dual feelings among the Pakistanis. Some feel secure after hearing this word and some feel insecure. This insecurity raises many questions in the minds of every Pakistani, but the leading question in the minds of Pakistanis is that why Pakistani police do not perform like developed countries police?This question is very deep-rooted and through this piece of writing, I will accentuate these reasons and problems whose are behind this question .Besides this, I will also provide some solutions of these problems. Firstly, in Pakistan, every single person is inspired by the performance of American and other advanced countries police and expecting these types of performance to the Pakistani police, but these persons forget the budget of these countries police which is so enormous as correlated to the Pakistani police budget. Despite this confined budget, our expectations to the Pakistani police are every high, and when the Pakistani police do not perform according to our expectations, we start to castigate the Pakistani police. This thing discouraged the Pakistani police, and therefore, they do not perform very competently. In that situation, Pakistani government should enhance the budget for the Pakistani police so that they could perform like developed countries police. Secondly, in Pakistan, Honors and rewards are given by government and public to the cops when they do any remarkable job, but when they do any mistake while performing their duty, public and government start to criticize the cops. For example, on the check posts when cops stop the car and car does not stop and as result, if cops do firing on the car and due to firing, a man who sit on the car, is die and the man who has died, is a criminal or terrorist. Public and government appreciate the act of the cops but when this man will not be a terrorist and criminal, public and government start to throwing shells of criticism on the cops. This type of public and government attitude is very lethal for cops and this thing demoralizes the cops . As a result, cops do not perform according to the expectations of the people . Therefore we should appreciate the cops in all circumstances although if they do any mistake while accomplishing their duties because cops are those men who risk their lives every day to protect the world. According to Sidney Sheldon “My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place and these heroes are Police , firefighter and member of armed forces”Therefore cops are our heroes and we should treat them as heroes. Thirdly, in developed countries, psychological courses are furnished by government to the police officers. After doing these psychological courses, Police officers can accept crimes from the criminals without doing any physical torture,But in Pakistan, Government does not provide these kinds of courses and due to not providing these courses, Pakistani police have to use the traditional methods and do physically torture to the accused persons. Due to using old methods and doing physical torture, people hate the Pakistani police. Therefore psychological courses should provide to the Pakistani police so that police officers could accept crimes from the criminals and accused persons without doing physical torture so that a friendly atmosphere could be developed between the public and police. Fourthly, in developed countries, investigation department in the police force, has so much importance just like the brain has value in the body. In Developed countries, Government provide a better environment and awesome budget to the investigation department and due to this, investigation department performs very well and does not take any penny to the affected parties for investigation expenditures.But in Pakistan, Government do not provide better facilities and an awesome budget to the investigation department and due to not providing an awesome budget, investigation police take money to the affected parties for completing the investigation procedure. Later on, these affected parties spread baseless information in society and impute on the police for very slow. Besides this, the police force has mostly inoperable vehicles, which are not used for capturing the advanced criminals who have advanced vehicles and technology. The government should increase the pace of digitalization and also deliver new and advanced vehicles and technology to the police force. Ninthly, in developed countries, laws are so strict for cops. If any cop is involved in any type of corruption and crime, the judicial system of these countries gives very tangible punishment to the cop. Due to this tangible punishment, other cops do not involve in corruption and any type of crime. But in Pakistan, if any cop is involved in any type of corruption and crime. He acquits to these cases by using different back doorways. These backs doorways are becoming the reason for decreasing the progress of cops. The state should enforce stringent laws for cops and besides this, the Back doorways should also be shut down for the better performance of the police force because according to Richard j. Daley ” The police are not here to create disorder. They are here to preserve disorder”. In the end tenthly, in developed countries, Higher rank police officers have awareness about the departmental problems of lower rank police officers and due to this, Higher rank officers try their best for solving of these problems .But in Pakistan, mostly higher rank officers are unaware of these departmental problems of lower rank officers. Therefore, higher rank officers do not try for the solving of these problems and due to this, the gap between higher rank officers and lower rank officers is increased and the efficiency of the police force is decreased. Therefore ,higher rank officers should have awareness about the departmental problems of lower rank officers so that gap between higher rank officers and lower rank officers could be decrease and police performance could be increase.
