92. Functions of the National Public Safety
Commission.--(1) In the performance of its duties the National Public Safety
Commission shall oversee the functioning of the Federal Investigation Agency,
Pakistan Railways Police, Anti-narcotics Force, Frontier Constabulary Pakistan
Motorway and Highway Police, any other Federal law Enforcement Agency and
Anti-smuggling Wing of Customs exercising police powers.
(2) Facilitate the establishment and functioning
of Citizen Police Liaison Committees in accordance with Article 168.
(3) Without prejudice to its role under clause
(1), the National Public Safety Commission shall perform the following functions :-
(a) recommend to
the Federal Government panels of three Police Officers for the appointment of
Capital City Police Officer for
[(b) * * *]
(c) recommend to the Federal Government
premature transfer of Capital City Police Officer for Islamabad and head of a
Federal Law Enforcement Agency before completion of normal tenure of three
years for unsatisfactory performance of duties; provided that before making
such recommendation the National Public Safety Commission shall give the concerned
officer an opportunity to be heard in person;
(d) oversee
implementation of plans prepared by heads of the respective law enforcement
agencies and approved and published by the government, setting out arrangements
for achieving objectives during the year. The plans shall include--
(i) a statement of
financial resources expected to be made available by the Government; and
(ii) performance
targets for the year and their delivery mechanism.
(e) evaluate the
delivery of performance targets on quarterly basis;
(f) require heads
of the relevant Federal Law Enforcement agency to submit to the National Public
Safety Commission, by end of August each year, a general report in a manner
prescribed by the National Public Safety Commission, which shall be published;
(g) submit an
annual report to the Government and the Parliament that shall include the
following;
(i) an abstract
concerning performance of the National Public Safety commission during the
year;
(ii) a report on the
functioning of the Federal Law Enforcement Agencies; and
(iii) a report on
matters connected with general law and order in the country.
(h) recommend
reforms for modernization of laws and procedure in respect of police,
prosecution, prisons and probation services;
(i) facilitate
coordination among the Provincial Public Safety [and Police Complaints]
Commissions;
(j) evaluate the
performance of the Islamabad District Public Safety Commission on annual basis.
If on the basis of the evaluation conducted by the National Public Safety
Commission, the performance of the Commission is found unsatisfactory, the
Government may dissolve the Islamabad District Public Safety Commission and
reconstitute the commission in accordance with the provisions of this order
within forty five days of such decision;
(k) conduct enquiry on the recommendation of
Islamabad Zila Council through a resolution passed by
two third majority of its total membership for the dissolution of the Islamabad
District Public Safety 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 Federal Government for the dissolution of the said Public Safety
Commission;
(l) perform
functions of the Islamabad District Public Safety Commission during the period
it stands dissolved;
(m) consider the
proposals of the National Police Management Board and give its recommendations
to the Government; and
(n) perform such
other functions with regard to public safety and safeguarding interest of the
people, as may be assigned by the Government to it for the purpose under any
law for the time being in force in particular pertaining to the Prosecution,
Prisons and Probation services.