LAHORE: An online conference of police officers hung on Tuesday experienced a pindrop silence when Punjab Examiner General of Cops (IGP) Inam Ghani blasted elderly policemans for causing embarrassment to the department complying with current incidents of protection gaps across the district. He was particularly distressed concerning the sexual assault of a lady by 400 men at Minar-i-Pakistan on Independence Day.

Mr Ghani regreted that the woman as well as various other customers made 36 phone calls following two major events of violence, yet the authorities failed to react on time.

The IGP also revealed concern over the major safety lapse when a bro of an MPA was fired dead at the wedding of the latter’s son in Defence Housing Authority in the presence of Chief Minister Usman Buzdar.

A policeman privy to the developments during the video clip link conference informed Dawn that this was the first time the IGP had snubbed elderly policemans, who did not use any kind of counter arguments to avoid the rage of the principal.

States police failed to react to harassment events at Greater Iqbal Park

The meeting was gone to by all area law enforcement agent, city police officers, regional law enforcement agent, the Lahore funding city policeman and other elderly police officers from the Central Police Office.

The authorities claimed the IGP lashed out at the area police officers and warned the senior policemans that in the future they would certainly have to face harsh penalties over any type of safety and security lapse, carelessness or unprofessional behavior, as was witnessed in the Greater Iqbal Park instance.

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Mr Ghani shared a number of factors with the conference participants that he believed resulted in the cops’s negligence in replying to the sexual offense on the woman TikToker. He claimed 36 emergency telephone calls were made throughout the traumatic case in addition to the previous night, however the authorities’s response was frustrating to say the least.

He told the conference that it referred serious worry that an incidence of physical violence was reported on the evening of Aug 13 when scores of young people had stormed right into the Greater Iqbal Park, harmed property and developed panic. The authorities neither did something about it to maintain law and order neither was any case lodged in this regard, the IGP lamented.

The following day– Aug 14, the TikToker was sexually assaulted at the very same place and the police officers stayed irresponsible even after that, leaving her at the mercy of numerous transgressors. Policeman from the fire station policeman concerned to the senior command failed to reply to the problems of the female in a timely manner, he worried.

The IGP stated he personally got in touch with the officers when the matter entered his notice as well as asked to lodge a situation.

There was no justification for the police’s failure, unprofessional practices as well as delayed response to the woman. He announced some changes to the policies, saying elderly policemans from the assistant superintendent of police to those holding leading settings must prepare themselves for accountability over gross carelessness as well as delayed response to such incidents, particularly physical violence versus females.