IGP Announces Huge Package for KP Police Personnel
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Akhtar Hayat Khan has announced huge packages for police personnel and officers.
In this regard, the IGP has taken important steps in many fields, in which the monthly amount received by the widows of employees with less than 10 years of service has been increased from Rs.7,000 to Rs.26,000.
Similarly, amount as a bridal gift, received on first/elder daughter’s marriage, was increased from 30 thousand to Rs100000.
Whereas, burial fee for police constables losing their lives in various incidents was increased to Rs.50,000 instead of Rs.30,000.
Likewise, Rs300000 will be paid from welfare fund for open heart surgery to force personnel while Rs150000 will be paid immediately for open heart surgery of personnel’s parents, wife, and children.
Similarly, officials suffering from cancer will receive Rs100000 when in early stages, and Rs500000 will be given to patients in later stages, while their family members, whose disease is in early stages, will get Rs.250000.
Rs one million have been allocated for kidney transplants for policemen, while Rs700000 has been allocated for the treatment of their parents, wives, and children.
Rs 30,000, monthly, has been allocated for the treatment of thalassemia, while not only the police personnel but also their children and parents will benefit from this initiative.
In case of any emergency, important measures have been taken for the officials under which officials injured in bomb blasts, traffic, and other accidents, their children and parents will be given Rs.100000 each.
Children of police force will get admission to best educational institutions in province and country on basis of merit.
The admission and tuition dues for the children studying in standard educational institutions of province, including Khyber Medical College Peshawar, Ayub Medical College Abbottabad, University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute Swabi, Institute of Management Sciences Peshawar, and in the country’s higher educational institutions like LUMS Lahore, Aga Khan University Karachi and NUST Islamabad, will be paid from Police Welfare fund.
Police cadets who qualify for CSS, judicial examinations, and PMS examinations will be awarded IGP Merit Certificate worth Rs 300000.
IGP said the success of children of police officers will be considered success of police department. “Police force is like a family and everyone’s welfare is dear to me like my own children,’’ he said.
Akhtar Hayat said these measures for the welfare of police are beginning of our efforts, just as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police are at frontline in making sacrifices, their welfare will also be exemplary for all.
It’s worth mentioning that during police court in some districts including Dera Ismail Khan, officials, and officers demanded that privileges of provincial police force, which plays role of frontline against terrorism, should be equal to police department of Punjab province.
Provincial police also wrote two letters to inquire about education allowance and medical SPO.