FAISALABAD: The FCCI Guardians Fund has been established to help out families of police martyrs of district Faisalabad.
Dr Khurram Tariq, president Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FCCI), and Kamran Adil, City Police Officer (CPO) Faisalabad, formally inked a memorandum of understandings (MoU) to offer educational scholarships, healthcare support, jobs and other services to the dependents of police martyrs.
“In this connection, a comprehensive and transparent system has been evolved to prudently utilise allocated resources,” said Dr Khurram Tariq, adding that business community fully acknowledge the sacrifices of police martyrs and “we are bound to look after their families so that they could enjoy an elevated social status in society”.
He said the FCCI fully takes the responsibility of the families of police martyrs and the MoU was a testimony to it.
He said that cooperation between police and private sector would be promoted to improve the overall law and order situation by launching initially two projects in Millat Industrial Estate and Super Stores Association. “These projects would be presented as a model to attract other institutions to replicate this community policing model to improve the law and order situation in their respective areas”, he added.
CPO Kamran Adil said that 8500 police Jawans are providing protection to the life and property of 9.5 million population of Faisalabad district. He said that 110 Jawans have so far laid down their lives in line with their duty. He said he has arranged 33 residential plots for the families of martyrs while a private housing scheme has recently announced to give another 8 plots to the families of Shuhda-e-police.
Vice President FCCI Hajji Muhammad Aslam Bhalli and other police officials were also present during this event. Later, Dr Khurram Tariq and CPO signed and exchanged the documents on behalf of their respective institutions.
