LAHORE: Additional Collector of Customs Amir Rasheed has said that it took his team to finalize all arrangements of sending first batch of 25 customs inspectors and sepoyes on training to Scout Training Warsak Camp for sharpening their professional skills to effectively tackle and bring down the level of smuggling activities under the collectorate of Preventive Lahore limits.
While talking to Customs Today Amir Rasheed said that on the instructions of Collector of Customs Zulfiqar Younas the collectorate team through Peshawar collectorate was able to get permission of the Frontier Corps (FC) for the training of Customs Field Formations on professional line.
He said that during the four month a number of correspondences took place between Customs Preventive collectorate Lahore and Peshawer collectorate.
He added that the Collector of Customs Peshawar Qurban Ali Khan also took up the matter on priority basis and pulled a few strings to make the project a success.
He said that the inspectors and sepoyes will be imparted all the field crafts including physical training, weapon handling, weapon maintenance, guard duty, shooting, physical training (PT), drills and lectures on relevant s subjects especially on customs laws.
“Physical training, weapon handling, weapon maintenance, guard duty, shooting, PT, drills and lectures will certainly bring about a revolutionary change in the capacity building of the field force of the customs department,” he said.
He said that following completion of the ring programme the customs field force will be able to perform effectively and efficiently which will be instrumental in creating deterrence against the smuggling business and curtail it to a significant level.
He was of the view that need of the training of customs officials was aimed at maximizing their efficiency and performance to make anti-smuggling operations more result oriented.
He informed that the Chief Collector of Customs Central Region Samaira Nazir was also taken on board who also helped and supported the traning program of the officials engaged in counter smuggling assignments.
As many as 25 inspectors and spoyes have been selected from across the collectorate for the training programme in the first stage while the whole field force of the collectorate will trained on the program in the next 18 month.
In the first batch Muhammad Iqbal inspector is selected from Railway Station T-10, Ijaz Butt Inspector from Airport Traffic, Mubashar Inspector from GPO, Intikhab Alam Inspector from AFU, Sajjad Bukhari, Inspector from PFC Wagha, Sajjad Ahmad Jatoi Inspector from Airport Traffic, Ashraf Inspector from Headquarters, Abdul Ghaffar Unspector from Anti Smuggling Organization (ASO), Mansab Inspector from PFC Wagha and Tipu Sultan inspector from ASO.
Similarly, 15 sepoyes including Tauqeer Hussan, Rana Shakeel Abbasi, Zubair Hussain Khan, Pervaiz Khan, Naveed Mustafa, Azhar Hussain, Abbas Ali, Malik Sajjad Khan, Asad Abbas Shah, Naveed Ahmad Khan, Hamza Shakeel, Muhammad Riaz, Nadeem Akhtar, Muhammad Akmal, and Ashfaq Ahmad from Headquarters, ASO, AFU, LFU, T-10, Wagha, PFC and other customs establishments selected for training.
