ISLAMABAD - Police are a professional force and making efforts to promote relations with community and win public support through arranging sports programmes as well as extra curriculum activities for students. IGP Islamabad Qazi Jamil ur Rehman said this while speaking at the concluding ceremony of Police Summer Camp School here on Tuesday.
IGP Islamabad said the aim of holding such camps in police vicinity is to bridge the gap between police and public. He said that Islamabad police are striving to strengthen relations with community and acquaint the children with the police working.
Islamabad police had 30-day summer camp for the children of age 6 years to 15 years at Police Lines Headquarters H-11, Islamabad, he said. A total of 218 children participated in summer school this year and were given special lectures about self-defence and child protection.
On the occasion, DIG Security Waqar Ur Din Syed, DIG HQ Kamran Aadil, SSP Headquarters and other police officials, and parents of children were also present.
The IGP said that Islamabad police got very good response in these summer camps which were being organized since 2002. He said such summer school camps would continue in the coming years due to very positive response and SSP (Headquarters) has endeavoured a lot for the success of this programme. He said that Islamabad Police are role model for other law enforcement agencies and those children participating in this summer camp would remember it for whole life.
Parents of the children thanked Islamabad police for arranging this healthy activity and hoped that further liaison of police with public would enhance in future.