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js EAST PAK INSPECTOR GENERAL OF! POLICE! CHOUDHURY (A
NEST PAKISTANI POLICE OFFICER) TOLD ME TODAY HE REASONS
NBUY SATISFIED WITH PACE OF RECONSTRUCTION OF EAST PAK
BOLICE FORCE: HE RECALLED THAT ON TAKING CHARGE SOME
THO MONTHS AG0, EAST PAX POLICE HAD BEEN REDUCED TO LESS
Thaw 22 BRECENT: OF ITS PREAMARCH 25 STRENGTH NOW» HE SAID.
TEMS Sooaa REINFORCEMENTS. FROM EST PAKISTAN AND Le» 000
RECENT RECRUITS! IN EAST PAK» FORCE IS BEOTNNING To! TAKE
SHAPE AGAIN, HE. SAID CRASH) TRAINING SOME RECRUITS HAD
jusT BEEN COMPLETED. AND THEY WERE! BEING ASSIGNED TO
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NCED CONSTABLES* ON EXPER{MENTAL: BASIS He TS TRAINING
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RESPOND IMMEDIATELY 10! LAW AND ORDER SITUATIONS» WHEN
TRAINING COMPLETED KE PLANS 2USLCSH. PHONE NUMBERS OF
JEANS IN HOPES THIS WILL) RESTORE PUBLIC! CONFIDENCE IN.
[an AND ORDER. HE ADMITTED TTO BEING CONCERNED THAT
SHISCREANTS" MIGHT MISUSE NUMBERS +
2+ PLACING PREAMARCH 25: POLICE. STRENGTH: AT AROUND
33100818) SAID THAT PRESENT FORCE! HAD GROWN TO ALMOST
SFOURTHS OF THIS FIGURE. HE SAID THERE WAS NO
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