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| FC sent to Buner after police refusal |
| 2009-04-25 |
| The provincial government Friday sent four platoons of Frontier Constabulary to maintain law and order in Buner, after regular police and Elite Police Force (EPF) once again refused deployment in the troubled district, a source confided to The News. Officers and five to 10 police cops were selected from each police station of the capital city to be sent to Buner district in Malakand Agency after militants spilled over there. The cops, however, refused to be posted in Buner and they even preferred to be dismissed. It was learnt that the capital city police officer (CCPO) Safwat Ghayyur later delivered a morale-boosting speech to the cops and volunteered to go along with the policemen of the capital city to Buner. A contingent of around 360 cops was directed to leave for the restive town under the leadership of Safwat, who is supposed to head the police force of Peshawar, Charsadda and Nowshera only. The contingent could not leave for Malakand for several reasons. Many of the cops were of the opinion that they have nothing to do with policing in Buner as they were recruited for the provincial capital. “As policemen refused to go to Buner, the personnel of the Frontier Constabulary (FC) deployed in different police stations of the city to assist the police were asked to pack up for the troubled town,” a source disclosed. He added that so far four platoons of the paramilitary FC have been sent to Buner from Peshawar.The Frontier government has raised a special elite force - Elite Police Force (EPF), whose members have got special training to curb terrorism. However, the EPF not only refused deployment in Swat in the recent past, but it resorted to repeat the same when its personnel were asked to assist police in Buner.The FC has suffered a number of casualties in different parts of the country during the “war on terror”. In the latest incidents, its eight officials were killed in a suicide attack on a post in Islamabad while another was killed when ambushed in Buner on Thursday. |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #1 They have a point, they're NOT Army. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-04-25 19:10 |