KARACHI: Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah has said the Sindh police was one of the best force in the world in the sense that they fought against terrorists, target killers and extortionist bravely. The credit goes to Rangers, Sindh Police and Pakistan Army for restoration of Peach in Karachi and rest of province.

“The peace has not returned here easily but it has taken lives of our police, Rangers and Pak Army personnel and I salute the martyrs and pay rich tribute to the families of shuhdas.”

While addressing to 40th batch of 760 passing out parade of police at Shaheed Benazir Bhutto ELITE Police Training Center Razzaqabad on Thursday Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah said that the morale of Sindh police was down when PPP government had taken over in 2008.

“The reasons behind low morale was targeted killing of policemen who had participated in operation clean up in Karachi, their salary structure was lower than the police force of other provinces, there was no solid compensation system for shuhda, the families of shuhdas had no government patronage,” he counted and said the provincial government had adopted a holistic approach to address the issues.

Chief Minister said that recruitments in police department were purely made on merit, designed best training courses for their capacity building, enhanced their salary structure and made it as par with the salaries of police in other provinces, enhanced compensation for shuhda, improved their health and educational services and then equipped them with best arms and ammunition.

“Today our police force is best in Pakistan and could be compared with any police force in the world,” he said.

“Sindh police is best in the world in the sense that it has fought bravely against terrorist, target killers, extortionists in the city and 2200 of them embraced shadat,” he said and added “I salute them and their families. “We have not left the families of shuhda alone but giving them salaries regularly apart from paying them compensation,” he said.

Shah hoped that the batch of 760 policemen, including 148 women being passed out today would be a best addition in the police force. “I have witnessed their abilities they demonstrated in their passing out programme they are superb and well trained and I am sure they would deliver in the field,” he said.

“This training center was established during 90s and so far it has produced a force of 50,000 policemen,” he said and vowed to strengthen it further with auditorium and other required facilities. He also said that he would consider the proposal of establishing a Police Cadet College.

CM also said that he was favourably considering the proposal of upgradation of constables from grade BPS-5 to 7, Head constables from BPS B-7 to 9 and ASI from grade B-7 to 11.

The passing out policemen demonstrated their training skill and abilities to curb crime and handle sensitive situation. They gave guard of honour when the chief minister reached at the centre.

Murad Ali Shah distributed certificates, medals and awards to the position holders of the training course.

The ceremony was attended by IG Police Dr Kaleem Imam, Adl IG Dr Aftab Pathan, Commandant of training Center Tanveer Otho and other concerned police officers.

IG Sindh Police Kaleem Imam and Commandant Training Center Taveer Odho also spoke on the occasion.