Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Umar Sheikh on Wednesday was fined by a Traffic Police cop for using his phone while driving.
According to reports, Sheikh was on a call when his private vehicle was pulled over by the traffic warden to penalise him.
The top cop, who reports said was on a routine drive to visit different areas of the provincial capital and monitor the security situation there, was served a Rs500 fine.
CCPO Umar Sheikh appreciated the traffic warden over implementing the rules and regulations.
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A day earlier, the Punjab government removed Shoaib Dastgir from the post of inspector general of police (IGP), making him the fifth officer to be asked to relinquish the office since the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government took the reins.
The development had followed Dastgir refusing to work under the PTI government over the recent appointment of Umar Sheikh as the Lahore CCPO without his consultation, and had asked the chief minister (CM) to transfer him to a “suitable location”.
A separate notification added that Inam Ghani, a BS-21 officer of the Police Service of Pakistan, has been made the new provincial police chief. Ghani is the sixth IGP to assume charge within the past two years.
