Kathmandu, June 14 :

Officiating Inspector General of Police, Om Bikram Rana, today unveiled a 11-point policy that he said he would try to implement during his tenure as the chief of the Nepal Police.

“Nepal Police will be soon be implementing the concept of metropolitan police system in the Valley to make the police service in the Valley prompt and effective,” Rana said at a press meet organised at the Police Headquarters.The new police system will change the structure of the Valley Police under the office of police commissioner, according to Rana. He further said that the proposed Police Commissioner’s office would bring semi-judicial power of District Administration Office to the police office. “Inception of the new system will help manage a sound security arrangement in the Valley,” he added.

Rana said that the Nepal Police is thinking of giving more rights to the Crime Investigation Department of Police headquarters, Regional Police Offices, Zonal Police Offices to prosecute those guilty of complicated and serious crimes at courts, which till now is done only by the District Police Offices.

He expressed his desire to develop the crime investigation branch of the Police as the Crime Investigation Bureau of Nepal.

“Nepal Police wants to establish a Police Service Commission so that it can select meritorious candidates which will also be at par with the Public Service Commission,” Rana told reporters. “For this, we are asking the government to make appropriate amendments to the existing Nepal Police Act and Regulations.” Rana said that community police programmes would be expanded throughout the country if possible so that police can understand the people’s desire and sentiment.