He carries rich experience of policing while serving in Punjab on different key positions. He has served in the capital police as SP, SSP, AIG, and DIG in various wings
He wants to implement a police system which is service-oriented and people-friendly. He says the police should not consider themselves rulers but servants of the people
ISLAMABAD Dec 14 (TNS): “Islamabad Police is close to my heart. I have served here as SP-headquarters and then SSP-headquarters. I recruited many personnel of Islamabad Police and know most of them personally,” says Sultan Azam Temuri, newly appointed IG of Islamabad Police.
Temuri wants to follow the model of Nasir Khan Durrani who was considered to be the most powerful IG Islamabad has ever. Temuri carries rich experience of policing while serving in Punjab on different key positions. He has served in the capital police as SP, SSP, AIG, and DIG in various wings.
Sharing his vision, the new police chief has said that he would make Islamabad Police the best police force in the country and a model for others to emulate. “It’s a dream and we will work hard to realize it.”
He wants to implement a police system which is service-oriented and people-friendly. He says the police should not consider themselves rulers but servants of the people. “Respect everyone. Be polite but firm,” he has told the force. He also stresses professionalism and equal application of law.
While he assures the police personnel to look after their wellbeing and take care of all of their issues, he has warned that there will be no tolerance for corruption. “I should receive no complaint of bribery etc. If it comes in my knowledge that person will not stay in this department,” Temuri said.
He also emphasizes people-centered policing and use of technology to improve police working.
Temuri says all his personnel will be just a text away from him, promising any official could just drop him a text and he would solve the issue in 24 hours.
He is desirous of enhancing professionalism of police department for grappling with enormous challenges and eliminating extraneous interference to get results as per mandate assigned to the force.
Transferred from Punjab to Islamabad back in January 2,000 as a young police officer, Sultan Azam Temuri, the new top boss of the Islamabad Capital Territory Police, served the capital in an exemplary way on different occasions, demonstrating exceptional commitment to the public service.
He was posted as SP Headquarters, Islamabad on January 11, 2000 and the afterward career of around seventeen years and vast experience of policing earned for him the post of IGP Islamabad on December 8.
The new ICTP boss has served the police departments of Punjab and the federal capital on around two dozen positions and proved himself as one of the best officers the police department ever had. Twice he was part of the UN Peace Keeping Mission in 2,000 and 2,009.
Being part of the Islamabad police, Temuri served in security division, headquarters, traffic police, operations division, establishment division, and also in Motorway Police before having been selected as head of the capital police. Raising Islamabad Traffic Police was one of the great achievements of Temuri besides introduction of new security measures in the capital city.
Sultan Azam Temuri is ready to meet challenges ahead as capital police chief. The challenges include ever-increasing crimes: murder cases, particularly due to land and property disputes, vehicle theft, street crimes and prostitution
The background interaction with police officials reveal that land and property disputes are behind majority of the murder cases in Islamabad. Such disputes are frequent in the suburban areas of the city where business of housing societies is booming and the price of land is skyrocketing. Police stations as Secretariat, Shehzad Town, Sihala, Lohi Bher and Bhara Kahu are hub of such disputes.
Street crimes like mobile and purse snatching at gun point and robbery incidents are the most common cause of sense of insecurity among the residents.
Also, police welfare needs to be given special focus so that morale of the force could be boosted. Construction of more police station is needed to improve policing in the city. Similarly, construction of 2,000 flats for accommodation of police personnel, rehabilitation/renovation of offices, dispensary, mess, quarter guard, canteen block, swimming pool, officers’ residences, staff quarters and police barracks is awaiting special attention.
