Community rooms set up to settle dispute at police stations level.

MULTAN -- Regional Police Officer (RPO) Multan Waseem Ahmad Khan disclosed on Thursday community rooms have been set up at all police stations across Multan region to resolve petty issues in their initial stages and prevent people from going to courts.

Talking to the media here, the RPO further disclosed that the community rooms have been set up at 79 police stations of the region and committees, comprising notables of the area, members of civil society and concerned police officials have been constituted. He hoped that the decisions made at these community rooms would gain public's trust and offer justice to the people at their threshold. He hoped that the community rooms would help prevent people from going to courts which would save precious resources of the state.

He said that the community rooms would help discourage trends like filing cases on petty issues and majority of the issues would be settled at police station level in presence of both the parties. He added that the community rooms would also help save precious time of police besides getting the people rid of baseless cases and blackmailing. He pointed out that the community policing increased the outreach of police to streets and increased masses trust level on police.

Meanwhile, the RPO issued...