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Functions
  1. Co-ordinate the functioning of District Public Safety and Police Complaints Commissions within the Province;
  2. Recommend to the Government repatriation of Provincial Police Officer before completion of normal tenure of three years for unsatisfactory performance of duties.
  3. Recommend to the government for grants to various police establishments within the province, for enhancing their capability to handle public order;
  4. Assist the police establishment in securing assistance from other police establishments and law enforcement agencies by approaching the other Provincial and Public Safety and Police Complaints Commissions and National Public Safety Commission;
  5. Oversee the implementation of the Provincial Policing Plan prepared by Provincial Police Officer and approved and published by the Provincial Government. The plan shall include:

    - a statement of the financial resources expected to be made available by the Government; and
    - performance targets for the year and their delivery mechanism.
    - evaluate the delivery of performance targets on quarterly basis;
    - require the Provincial Police Officer to submit by end of August each year a general report in a manner prescribed by the Provincial Public Safety Commission which shall be published;
    - submit an annual report to the Government and the Provincial Assembly that shall include the following;
    - an abstract concerning performance of the Provincial Public Safety Commission during the year;
    - a report on the functioning of the Police Establishments;
    - a report on matters connected with general law and order in the Province.
  6. Recommend reforms for modernization of laws and procedure in respect of police, prosecution, prisons and probation service;
  7. Evaluate the performance of the District and Capital City Public Safety and Police Complaints Commissions on annual basis. If on the basis of the evaluation conducted by the Provincial Public Safety 4[and Police Complaints] Commission, the performance of the Commission is found unsatisfactory, it may recommend the dissolution of such Commission and on dissolution of the Commission the government shall reconstitute the same in accordance with the provisions of this Order within forty five days of such decision;
  8. Conduct enquiry on the recommendation of a Zila Council through a resolution passed by two third majority of its total membership for the dissolution of the relevant Public Safety and Police Complaints Commission on grounds of unsatisfactory performance of the said commission, establish veracity or otherwise of the grounds of recommendation for rejection or onward transmission to the Provincial Government for the dissolution of the said Public Safety and Police Complaints Commission. Where the government dissolves the relevant Public Safety and Police Complaints Commission it will reconstitute the same in accordance with the provisions of this Order within forty five days of such decision;
  9. Perform functions of the relevant Public Safety and Police Complaints Commission during the period it stands dissolved;
  10. Consider the proposals made by Provincial Police Officer or National Police Management Board and give its recommendations to the government;
  11. Recommend essential criminal justice reforms;
  12. Perform such other functions with regard to public order and safeguarding public interest, as may be assigned by the government to it for the purpose under any law for the time being in force including Prosecution, Prisons and Probation services;
  13. Take cognizance of cases of Police neglect, excess, abuse of authority and conduct prejudicial to public interest against Head of District Police and police officers not serving in a District-
    o on a complaint from an aggrieved person in writing supported by an affidavit; or
    o on a report from a District Public Safety and Police Complaints Commission; or
    o on a reference from the Government; or
    o on its own accord;
  14. Inquire into the complaint either by itself or through any Government officer not below the Basic Pay Scale 19 and on the basis of findings of the inquiry-
    o file the complaint, if the charges are not proved; or refer the matter to the concerned Head of General Police Area for departmental action and report back; or order the registration of a criminal case under the relevant provisions of Pakistan Penal Code (Act V of 1860), this Order or any other law for the time being in force;
    - report, to the Chief Minister, where the Commission is not satisfied with the action taken by the Head of General Police Area in cases referred to in sub-paragraph (i) and make appropriate recommendations in this behalf;
    - recommend disciplinary action against an inquiry officer for willful neglect or mishandling of an inquiry; (iv) inform the complainant of the outcome of the inquiry in writing as soon as possible; and
    - direct the appropriate authority, in case of any frivolous, or vexatious complaint, to initiate action under the law against the complainant; and
    - delegate any of its powers to its Chairperson.