CCPO visits Police Protection Centre.

LAHORE -- Capital City Police Officer Lahore Additional IG Bilal Siddique Kamyana, on Sunday visited the Police Protection Centre Liberty Gulberg, set up under the special initiative of IG Punjab Usman Anwar, to safeguard the rights of transgenders' as well as destitute disabled persons, house maids affected from torture and social as well as financial exploitation.

SSP Operations Sohaib Ashraf, SSP Admin Atif Nazir, AIG admin Ammara Athar, SSP Elite Force Nida Umar Chatta, SP Model Town Dr Ammara Sherazi, SP Investigation Iqbal Town Aqeela Niazi Naqvi, ASP Gulberg, ASP Chung, and other related staff of Police Protection Centre Liberty was present on this occasion.

Bilal Siddique Kamyana reviewed the facilities being provided at Police Protection and Facilitation Centre Gulberg.

AIG Ammara Athar briefed the CCPO Lahore regarding the functions and facilities being provided in the Police Protection Centre Gulberg.

He was further informed that Police Protection Centre was fully functional and started providing protection and legal aid to the vulnerable segments of society including transgender community.

The CCPO said that the members of transgender community have been playing their pivotal role in progress of country and deserve special attention and treatment so that sense of deprivation and fear found in them could be removed to the extent possible.

Lahore police were actively working and trying to protect the legal and social rights of all...