07/04/2025
سنگین مقدمات کے اندراج اور تفتیش کیلئے کرائم کنٹرول ڈیپارٹمنٹ (CCD) قائم۔
The Punjab governor has promulgated an ordinance amending the Police Order 2002, to establish a Crime Control Department (CCD), which will register and investigate the crimes provided in the Fourth Schedule.
The Police Order (Amendment) Ordinance 2025 has empowered the CCD to establish police stations and register FIRs for serious and heinous crimes.
The ordinance makes the CCD the third parallel police organisation in Punjab with the authority to register cases after the counterterrorism department (CTD), and regular police.
According to the Police Order (Amendment) Ordinance 2025, a specialised cadre with the name of Crime Control Force shall be raised and maintained in the CCD having its headquarters, regions, districts and sub-divisions comprising police stations and specialised units or wings.
The CCD shall be headed by the additional IG of the police who shall be responsible for its entire administration.
The head of the CCD shall be assisted by such a number of deputy inspector general of police, senior superintendents, superintendents and assistant/deputy superintendents of police and such other staff as the government may notify from time to time.
“The Crime Control Department police stations shall be established in every district and the officers in charge of such police stations shall act under the Code regarding the cases registered in Crime Control Department police stations or transferred to it,”
An SSP-ranked police officer would head the Lahore CCD with three SPs under his command.
Each SP would have three DSPs, respectively, in addition to other required staff۔
