The Sindh
Police (Sindhi: سنڌ پوليس, Urdu: سنده پولیس) is a Law enforcement
agency established in 1843 under proclamation issued by Sir Charles
Naipiar, who became the conqueror of the State of Sindh by defeating the forces
of Talpur rules at battle of Miyani near Hyderabad on 20 March 1843. This was
the first ever Police force established in the Indian subcontinent.[citation
needed] Ever since its inception, the organization
raised on the model of Irish Constabulary to maintain law and order and law enforcement in Sindh, Pakistan. The department serves an area of ~140,914 km2., and has about ~105,234 police officers and staff to serve
in the department. As of current, Allah Dino (AD) Khawaja is the current Inspector-General who was appointed in 2016.[2]
In March 2016, A.D. Khawaja took charge as IG Sindh Police. He
could retain the post for only nine months, he was sacked by the Sindh
government, reinstated by court order and again sacked on 2nd April,
2017
Khawaja, then AIG, led a three-member fact-finding committee
to inquire the allegation of corruption, illegal appointments in the
police and a lack of transparency in allocation of cost of investigation to
investigation officers. The findings of the reports led to the sacking of
former Sindh IGP Gulam Haider Jamali over corruption charges.
The former IG Sindh Police Ghulam Haider Jamali was sacked in
March 2016 after the Supreme Court (SC) ordered the National Accountability
Bureau (NAB) to probe the alleged corruption in Sindh Police.
Some other headlines about Khwaja are as follows:
KARACHI: In a setback to PPP-led Sindh government,
the Sindh High Court on Wednesday issued a stay order against sending the
provincial Inspector General of Police (IGP) A.D. Khawaja on forced leave. The
order was issued on a petition filed by seven citizens including Karamat
Hussain, the head of an NGO and singer-cum-activist Shehzad Roy….
KARACHI: The Inspector General of Police (IGP),
Sindh, A.D. Khawaja, has sought an inquiry report from the SSP South regarding
the reported firing incident in Karachi’s Delhi Colony on Friday on the vehicle
of Faisal Vawda, a leader of the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI). The IGP
instructed that all the available evidences should be collected and…
KARACHI: The Inspector General of Police (IGP), A.D.
Khawaja, on Saturday chaired a meeting regarding the upgradation of Madadgar
15. A statement said that the meeting also reviewed steps for effectively
curbing crimes. It said that the meeting considered issues faced by Madadgar 15
such as response time, call connecting and prank calls etc and…
KARACHI: The Sindh Police is raising a new unit of
1500 personnel in the Counter-Terrorism Department that was set up after the
initiation of the National Action Plan (NAP). This was informed by the
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Sindh, A.D. Khawaja, in an interview with the
APP here. He pointed out that the new…
While rewarding a citizen for shooting a robber,
Inspector General Sindh Police A.D Khawaja advised people of Karachi to use
their licenced weapons in self-defense. Watch this report…
KARACHI: Inspector General of Police (IGP) Sindh A.D.
Khawaja has said that law enforcement agencies (LEAs) are very close to the
killers of prominent Qawwal Amjad Sabri.
IG Sindh Police, A.D Khawaja claims that law and
order situation has improved in Karachi with no sign of target-killing
anywhere. Watch this report…
It is a fact that ever since A.D Khwaja took charge
of Sindh police, there has been reduction in street crimes in Karachi and oppression
of the poor by landlords in interior Sindh. The thing that seems to have broken
the camel’s back is his recent order asking thousands of plain clothes men in
police service to put on uniform and contribute in normal police service.
Although it seems like a very reasonable action it reminds me of a conversation
I had with a young Sindhi police officer many years ago. The young man was
convinced that anything that happened under the supervision of the Chief
Secretary and the IG had to be legal and honorable. So he described how in the
small police station where he was posted plain clothes men used to deposit
about three lac (300,000) rupees every day by extortion from street hawkers,
encroachers gambling den and prostitution centre runners and other wrongdoers.
According to him the money was divided into three parts according to some
formula, and the Chief Secretary and IG’s representatives collected their
shares. Of the money left with SHO, most was spent on delivering groceries and
buying plane tickets for the families of “high officials” and “leaders”. Of course,
there is also the question of boosting party coffers for the coming elections
when votes may cost more than before.
