LAHORE: Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz has said that the government wants to equip police personnel with body cameras to ensure transparency and better behaviour.
Directing the authorities concerned to improve the police performance, she said realtime monitoring of the personnel would also be possible through the body cams.
"The purpose of installing body cameras is to improve the police behaviour and ensure monitoring," she said. The chief minister said the use of social media by police officials was affecting their service. She directed the police officers to focus on professionalism instead of social media.
Maryam Nawaz directed that body cams will be installed on police operation, investigation and traffic wing personnel, while an order has also been issued to ban the use of social media during duty.
It is being told that on the order of Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz, measures have been started to install body cameras on the Punjab police personnel.
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On this occasion, Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz said that the protection of life and property of the people is the first priority and no negligence will be tolerated. She said he purpose of installing body cam is to improve the behavior of the police and ensure monitoring.
