International Narcotics and Law

Enforcement-Pakistan 
 
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Punjab 
 
 
POLICE ASSISTANCE 
INL’s Police Assistance Program (PAP) in Pakistan seeks to develop a sustainable, effective, professional,
and transparent civilian law enforcement corps within Pakistan; and to support law enforcement
presence in remote and under-governed areas, particularly along the Afghanistan border.  Since 2002,
INL has provided assistance to police in all four of Pakistan’s provinces and Islamabad;  Levies in the
Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA); and federal law enforcement organizations such as the
Frontier Corps, Frontier Constabulary, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), the National Highways and
Motorway Police (NHMP), and the Pakistan Railways Police (PRP).   
 
INL restarted our police assistance in October 2016 five years after INL and wider Mission civilian
assistance to Punjab largely ceased.  The Punjab Police is the country’s largest police force, is a pioneer
in the use of IT for policing and service delivery to citizens, and has served as a role model for other
provinces.  Highlights of PAP assistance in Punjab include: 
 
 $14.1 million in vests, helmets, and anti-riot gear that will help improve the capacity of the
Punjab Police by protecting police lives and extending the reach and abilities of the police. 
 A $360,000-project to re-construct the FIA Punjab Zonal Office which was destroyed in a 2008
terrorist attack.  The project will provide bulletproof windows, observation posts, and office space
facilities for FIA officials as they investigate cases involving international organized crime,
terrorism, and white collar crime.
 $ 655,000 commodities to Punjab Forensic Science Agency (PFSA) that includes one VSC-8000
document analyzer and one Gas Chromatography – Time of Flight (GC-QTOF) to enhance the
operational effectiveness and investigative capacity of civilian law enforcement in Punjab.

 
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIVE TRAINING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 
The Department of Justice’s ICITAP-Pakistan program takes a targeted approach in three key areas: 
 Training:  Enhance the capacity of the police to provide professional law enforcement services
to Pakistan’s citizens through specialized police training, designed primarily for law enforcement
commanders, assigned to the following federal law enforcement agencies:  Federal Investigation
Agency, Islamabad Capital Territory Police, Pakistan Railways Police, National Accountability Bureau,
National Forensic Science Agency, National Highways and Motorways Police, Frontier Constabulary,
National Police Academy and the National Police Bureau. 
  Sustainable Institutional Capacity:  Provide the Pakistan federal police with modern policing
strategies and training capacity that can be replicated within each organization by working through
the National Police Bureau and the National Police Academy to institutionalize training reforms. 
 International Best Policing Practices:  Deliver to the Pakistani federal police the knowledge,
skills, and abilities associated with internationally accepted best policing practices in criminal
investigations, leadership and management, organizational and academy development, forensics,
and crisis management.   
Key local events funded by INL and supported by ICITAP in the development of these practices
include:  
o Retired Inspectors General of Police Workshop – An annual workshop held in Islamabad
that brings together nearly 100 active and retired senior police commanders.  The event
highlights advocacy efforts by the Association of Former Inspectors General of Police (AFIGP)
group to reform Pakistan’s police.    
o Islamabad Capital Territory Police Youth Summer Camp – The annual six-week youth day
camp is produced each summer by the Islamabad Police at their police lines campus.  Each
session requires more than 100 police officers to actively host and mentor nearly 300
children between the ages of 6 and 14.  The children participate in many types of
educational and recreational activities at this world-class community policing event that
include horseback riding, martial arts, swimming, obstacle courses, archery, self-defense,
and gymnastics. 
o Islamabad Police Family Gala – Each autumn the Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP) seeks to
enhance positive police-community interaction by producing one of the area’s largest family
friendly events.  The Family Gala, held in Islamabad’s Jinnah Park, hosts more than 15,000
people annually.  The ITP seeks to enhance their trust-building partnership with the
community through their sponsorship of this two-day community carnival that includes
public safety demonstrations, food, music, comedians, jugglers, and magic acts.  
o Islamabad Traffic Police School and Safety Quiz Competition -  The Islamabad Capital
Territory Police collaborate yearly to present a traffic and school safety quiz competition for
university teams representing several area colleges in Islamabad.  The one-day event is
designed to enhance awareness among area students of what constitutes good traffic and
school safety practices.  Police-community cooperation and trust-building concepts are
openly discussed by the 500+ participants. 
o National Forensic Science Agency Forensic (NFSA) Workshop - The NFSA hosts in
Islamabad an annual one-day workshop for federal forensic specialists focused specifically
on international best practices in evidence submission and processing standardization
practices.    
     
 
GENDER ASSISTANCE 
INL seeks to enhance the capacity of Pakistani women to preserve law and order, promote gender
equality, and serve as role models in the justice system.  These initiatives are accomplished through
support for women serving in the law enforcement, justice, counternarcoticscounter narcotics, and
corrections sectors, and mainstreaming gender issues in the criminal justice sector.  As of May
20172020, INL has provided more than 900 items of investigative and protective equipment to
policewomen in Balochistan, Islamabad, and Sindh; trained 160 female prosecutors and 45 female
judges; and provided assistance to a total of 258 women with legal aid, 564 women with vocational
training, and 55 women with formal education.  
 
INL partners with the National Police Bureau (NPB) in Islamabad to implement projects that support the
recruitment, retention, and promotion of policewomen nationwide.    
 Partnering with NPB and its Gender Crime Cell on Phase III of the Gender Responsive Policing
Project (GRPP).  The German government funded Phases I and II of the GRPP, which produced a
gender audit of Pakistan’s police organizations and a gender strategy for the police nationwide.  INL
launched Phase III of the GRPP in January 2017 focusing on revitalizing the Women Police Network,
increasing the gender sensitivity of police training programs, and collecting data on gender-based
violence and female police in order to better inform GOP policies on gender responsive policing. The
Project was successfully ended in January 2020.   
 Funding policewomen from throughout Pakistan to participate in international training
opportunities such as the International Association of Women Police annual conference and the INL
Women in Policing Conference.  To date, INL has funded the participation of 39 90
Pakistani policewomen from Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Gilgit Baltistan, Azad Jammu and
Kashmir, Punjab, Islamabad, and Balochistan in conferences in Wales, the United States, Spain, and
Georgia.  These conferences are great opportunities to share and gain new information, values, and
practices.   
 Providing training at INL’s International Corrections Management Training Center (ICMTC) to
corrections professionals from partner nations.  Since 2012, INL has sponsored the training of eight
women in these specialized training programs focused on managing prisons using internationally
accepted standards.  At the completion of the program, each participant identifies long- and short-
term goals they wish to achieve after returning to their home facility.   
 
As the most populous and developed province of Pakistan, Punjab provides better protection
services than other provinces, particularly in urban areas, with women police stations and shelter homes
in almost all major cities and smaller towns.  Punjab also employs the highest number of policewomen in
the country, with more than 2,800 female officers throughout the province.  However, anecdotal
reporting shows increased frequency of violence against women (VAW), particularly in the major
cities of Rawalpindi, Lahore, Faisalabad, Multan, and in the rural areas of southern Punjab.  In 2015,
54 percent of all VAW cases registered in Pakistan were registered in Punjab.  Highlights of INL’s gender
assistance in Punjab include:   
 A partnership with the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ) to provide capacity
building for female judges to improve their working conditions, form a supportive female judges’
association, and begin to address gender bias in the courts.  During the 15-month project, IAWJ will
support the creation of an association of women judges in Punjab that will provide professional and
leadership development for female judges and educate judges on gender justice.  IAWJ will
sponsor capacity-building opportunities for female judges and will organize a conference on
courthouse conditions, court security, and other similar issues for female judges in Punjab.  
 An agreement with UN Women to work in Rawalpindi to collect data on VAW and access to
justice; conduct gender sensitivity training for police, prosecutors, judges, and social service
providers; establish a Women Protection Unit to serve as safe location for women to discreetly
access key service providers; and conduct an awareness campaign that familiarizes the public with
the laws in place to protect women and services available for survivors of VAW in Punjab.  This
project will support the Punjab government’s implementation of the Protection of
Women Against Violence Act of 2015 and their mission to establish a Violence Against Women
Center (VAWC) in each of the province’s 34 districts.  UN Women will coordinate with the
champions of this bill to provide technical support to the VAWCs and will conduct gender sensitivity
training of police and other key stakeholders in Punjab. 
  The INL-funded Phoenix Foundation in Lahore is a drug treatment center that provides
treatment and rehabilitation services to female and juvenile drug addicts.  About 500 women will be
rehabilitated through this program annually, including vocational training to help patients
reintegrate into society.   
 Established in 2001 in Gunjranwala, Punjab Province, the Mian Afzal Trust Hospital (MATH) is an
NGO that focuses on a “Drugs and HIV Free Pakistan.”  MATH works through innovative
interventions to quality treatment and rehabilitation of drug abuse, and has established drug
demand reduction, HIV prevention, and treatment and rehabilitation services for men, women and
children.  MATH provides services in Gujranwala, Gujrat, Mandi Bahuddin, and Sheikhupura Districts
and is expanding its services to other districts of Punjab.  MATH offers residential in-patient
treatment, outpatient, local support groups, extended care centers, addiction counseling, mental
health and medical care. 
 
 
OVERSEAS PROSECUTORIAL DEVELOPMENT, ASSISTANCE, and TRAINING 
The office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance, and Training Resident Legal Advisors are
Department of Justice prosecutors whose expertise help strengthen Pakistani criminal justice sector
institutions and enhance the administration of justice throughout the country.  In Pakistan we focus on
trial advocacy skills, court administration and case management, and mainstreaming women in the
judicial sector.  Notable initiatives include: 
 Partnered with the Attorney General’s Office of Pakistan to create and manage a secure e-mail
system which will positively impact the office of the AG nationwide. 
 Sponsor quarterly Senior Prosecutors Conferences inviting prosecution management from each
province to Islamabad to focus on issues that impact the prosecution services nationwide. 
 Conduct an advocacy training series designed to enhance the trial skills and confidence of
prosecutors throughout Pakistan.  Prosecutors are nominated by the Prosecution Service leadership
and participate in a one-week class led by Federal Prosecutors from the United States. 
 Organize and fund participation of law schools throughout Pakistan in the Jessup International
Moot Court Competition sending the national champion and runner-up teams to the international
finals in Washington, DC. 
 Develop and facilitate study visits for female prosecutors from Punjab to the United
States, focusing on violence against women and forensics. 
 Managing a $200,000 project with the Lahore High Court addressing case management through
a series of judicial summits between Federal Judges from the United States and members of the
High Court.  
 
CORRECTIONS 
The INL-P Corrections program supports the Government of Punjab in its efforts to develop a
safer, more secure and humane prison system.  Since 2015, INL supports programs in Punjab provincial
prison system to develop sustainable reform efforts focused on conditions of confinement for prisoners
and developing a professional workforce through effective training.  The INL-P Corrections program has: 
 
 Since 2015, has funded training and travel for 69 Punjab prison officials for specialized courses
at INL’s International Corrections Management Training Center (ICMTC)  in Colorado, where training
focused on offender classification, programming, security practices and alternatives to
incarceration.  The program is ongoing and Punjab prison officials continue to attend this training
 every year.  For the very first time in December 2017; ICMTC has organized a specialized course for
the Pakistani Parole officials, where selected Punjab officials will also participate.  
 In 2017, provided approximately $920,000 in 700 protective bulletproof vests and helmets, and
basic equipment to enhance safety and security of prisons staff across the province. 
 Has been funding a $1.6 million project with UNODC to establish a Prison Management
Information System (PMIS) in 44 prison facilities across the province including the Punjab Prison
Training Center and the Office of the Inspector General of Prisons.  This system will improve
processing and tracking of prisoners, will significantly increase accuracy in staff and inmate
accountability in emergency situations, and will provide data to track a prisoner’s court and
sentence status.  The project started in 2017 and will take two years to complete.  
 Partnered with UNODC in 2010 on a $1.34 million project to research prison law and work with
relevant GOP entities including Punjab to modernize prison legislation.  
 Funded a $98,000 grant to the Legal Aid Office to conduct a needs analysis of the prison staff
training program.  Distributed throughout a community of experts and practitioners across Pakistan,
the study was used to inform a consortium of experts who, with INL funding, are developing prison
guard training curriculum that will be the standard for prison guard training nationwide.  Punjab
prison department is a key player in the ongoing efforts to develop this nation-wide curriculum; a
project approximately budgeted at $1million.    
 In 2014, funded a $250,000 project with the Society for the Protection of the Rights of Children
to provide legal aid in nine prisons across Punjab. Free legal assistance was given to 1,817 men and
35 women under trial. 40 women were taught basic reading and writing.  And in three prisons, 82
women received training in cosmetology and tailoring.  
 In 2014, funded a $66,000 grant to the Women Social Organization-Pakistan to provide
vocational programs to female inmates in five prisons in Southern Punjab.  Through this project, 184
women received training in tailoring, cosmetology, fabric printing, and computer literacy.  The
project also offered basic literacy skills to assist with understanding legal actions and business
transactions. 
 INL continues to fund the participation of high-level Punjab prison managers, Punjab Probation
and Reclamation officials and concerned policymakers from the Punjab Home Department in
international conferences to ensure their exposure to international standards, best practices,
concepts and technologies in the field of corrections. 
 
 
COUNTERNARCOTICS 
Established in 1982, Counternarcotics (CN) is INL’s legacy program in Pakistan.  In order to improve the
effectiveness of interdiction efforts and to support the institutional development of
Pakistan’s counternarcotics agencies, the USG supports GOP interdiction efforts through training,
mentorship, equipment, and operational support.  In the long-term, the U.S. government seeks to
improve the GOP’s capacity to stem large-scale drug trafficking, and increase the number of arrests and
successful prosecutions of major traffickers.  To date, the USG has invested more than $141 million in
combatting the flow of illicit drugs and reducing drug use.  With current assistance of $8.5m the CN
program develops the capacity of Pakistan’s CN law enforcement agencies, particularly the Anti-
Narcotics Force (ANF) and Customs, to disrupt narcotics trafficking.  The program also aims to reduce
drug demand by training drug treatment professionals and providing capacity-building and operational
support to local NGOs which offer drug treatment services, public awareness programs, and drug
prevention campaigns in schools and communities.  INL also works to reduce poppy cultivation
by providing seeds and fertilizer for licit replacement crops, agricultural training, crop irrigation and
drinking water systems, village-level hydro-electric generators, and farm-to-market roads. 
 INL-donated equipment such as vehicles, communication devices, and personal protective
equipment facilitate nine out of every ten seizure operations in Pakistan.   
 In 2016, ANF used INL-donated vehicles and surveillance equipment to seize more than 72
metric tons of heroin and opium, 138 metric tons of hashish, and 22 metric tons precursor
chemicals.  Representing a 15 percent increase over 2015, these operations resulted in combined
seizures of more than 233 tons of illicit drugs and arrested over 1,500 drug traffickers, 90 of which
ANF identified as traffickers in major drug organizations. 
 INL provides $285,000 in operational and commodity support to ANF Regional Directorates
Lahore and Rawalpindi to improve their ability to interdict drugs and ensure security and safety of
these forces. 
 In Punjab, INL funds the Phoenix Foundation, the Mian Afzal Trust, and the Youth Council for
Anti-Narcotics to provide drug treatment and rehabilitation services to women and children, and to
run drug prevention campaigns in educational institutions and local communities.  Over the course
of two years, INL has provided over $500,000 to these organizations as they trained treatment
professionals, delivered drug treatment and rehabilitation to more than 600 women and children
drug users, provided vocational training of 220 recovering persons, and funded a prevention
campaign targeting 19,500 people in the community.