POORLY CAPITAL POLICE

POORLY ARMED CAPITAL POLICE

Terrorist strikes in Islamabad on Monday, the Islamabad police high-ups are reluctant to adequately arm the police force with semiautomatic assault rifles that are widely available to police officials in many of the world’s other major capitals.

The policemen in Islamabad are finding it hard to encounter well trained terrorists in the city due to lack of automatic and modern weapons, with obsolete weapons it is a very difficult task for the police to overcome terrorists attacks.  The Islamabad police force not easily defend against an attack by well-armed terrorists but the absence of weapons could actually make the city a target.

The lack of manpower, the shortage of sophisticated weapons also remains an issue in the sensitive spots. It is also informed that most of the police official’s working at Islamabad police force in untrained and could not understands sensitivity of the situation. In situation of Monday’s terror attack in Islamabad, the Islamabad police had not taken concrete steps to stop the entry of militants  into parts of the capital city from Rawalpindi despite repeated terrorist attacks and bomb blasts in nearing areas of Rawalpindi which also spread panic in Islamabad.

It is also intimated that since recruitment police officials get no proper training and are deputed to counter terrorists. Most of the police officials at Islamabad police were untrained and has not understanding how to encounter terrorists according to giving the reference of eyewitnesses that three terrorists behind the attack at Islamabad courts managed to flee due to the outdated weapons and ammunition of the police.

Trained policeman with modern weapons would never have let terrorists to flee or blow themselves up. The capital police ahs 12 quick response force units and five counter terrorism squads each having a sniper and a 12 member crisis response team whose personals are well trained and they have got sophisticated weapons. Eyewitnesses were of the view that instead of passing 45 minutes the police team could not reach at the site of attack.