This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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A report released by The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has underlined that Police in Pakistan is responsible for hundreds of extra judicial killings every year. The report was based on interviews with more than 30 police officers and 50 victims or witnesses of abuse across three of the country’s four provinces. According to the 102-page report, titled “This Crooked System,” the HRW claims that public surveys and reports from government accountability and redress institutions have shown that “the police are one of the most widely feared, complained against, and least trusted government institutions in Pakistan.”
Asia director at Human Rights Watch, Brad Adams, explains that “Pakistan faces grave security challenges that can be best handled by a rights-respecting, accountable police force,” adding that “instead, law enforcement has been left to a police force filled with disgruntled, corrupt and tired officers who commit abuses with impunity, making Pakistanis less safe, not more.” The report highlights that local district level police chiefs are politicization and work “under the control of powerful politicians, wealth landowners, and other influential members of society.” The report states the officers “openly admitted to the practice of faked ‘encounter killings’, in which police stage an armed exchange to kill an individual already in custody.”
Police officials according to the HRW report cite organizational shortcomings, inadequate training and resources, lack of funds, poor working conditions and lack or coordination with other agencies as obstacles to transparency and accountability within the police force.
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