By Ashrafuddin Pirzada
PESHAWAR: United States Embassy deputy chief of Mission in Pakistan Andrew J. Schofer and Consul General Shante Moore inaugurated a new Frontier Corps(FC) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-North (FCKP-N) auditorium and policewomen’s barracks for police and Frontier Corps on Wednesday.
A ceremony was held here in Hayatabad Peshawar which FCKP-N Inspector General Major Noor Wali Khan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police Inspector General Akhtar Hayat Khan attended.
Speaking on the occasion, DCM Schofer said the two-year-long project worth dollars one is funded by the US embassy’s Office of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL).
He said the project aimed to hire and train policewomen and Frontier Corp’s additional 500 female officers each year. The two women’s barracks at the police training academies would house 128 female officers. He said each barrack would be used for FCKP officers and one for KP police officers.
DCM Schofer thanked them for their assistance with the projects and their commitment to increasing the number of female officers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The US mission officer said the auditorium enables FCKP-N to offer instruction to 215 women officers and the facility would also be used for additional FCKP-N operations.
“The barracks and auditorium “are built on more than 40 years of partnership between the US. Mission and Pakistan on civilian security and rule of law. Increasing Pakistani women in security agencies improves operational effectiveness, enhances access to justice for everyone and builds public trust,” the DCM said.
