Webinar on Community Policing

"Youth for Community Policing” is a social action project of students of BS-4, Department of Governance and Public Policy, NUML University, Islamabad under the supervision of Dr. Athar Rashid, which aims to promote education among youth of higher educational institutions regarding community policing. The names of group members are:

Project Manager

Ø  Maryam Saeed

 Social Media Manager

Ø  Momina Jehan

 Finance Manager

Ø  Abdullah Saeed Abbasi

 Content Writer

Junaid Ahmed Dashti

This blog is about  webinar on Community Policing that we conducted on 15, May 2020, at 4:00 pm. The guest speaker of webinar was Muhammad Irfan Nawaz, who is the founder of an Internet based think thank for police in Pakistan. We invited people by sending them the poster mentioned below: 

43 people including students mostly from National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Ripah, Arid, Cust, Comsats and Bahria University Islamabad, joined the webinar. Duration of the webinar was 50 minutes.

In the webinar, first the guest speaker introduced the community policing concept, then police structure in Pakistan and the trust gap between police and community in Pakistan. The second part of the webinar was questions answers session.

Questions asked in the Webinar:

The participants and our team members asked different questions like;

•  Is community playing a role in community policing in Pakistan? 
• Why community don't trust the police?
• Does the role of community is more important than police in community policing? 
• Does political intervention damage the image of police? 
• Why police doesn't arrest the mafias, mastermind of crimes and aresst the small criminals( theif, etc)? 

According to our guest speaker the main issue of police in Pakistan is political intervention, lack of police reforms and lack of technology.