PRESERVING AND PROMOTING PUBLIC ORDER AND PEACE- A CASE STUDY OF BALOCHISTAN LEVIES

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dc.contributor.authorSyed Mansoor Ahmed
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-18T15:30:22Z
dc.date.available2025-09-18T15:30:22Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractBalochistan Levies Force has the mandate for policing over 90% of the rural area of Balochistan. Levies follow the concept of community policing, having established deep social bonds within the tribal society. The British had raised the force in the late 19th century in Balochistan where the tribal elders used to hold the responsibility for maintaining law and order within their areas of jurisdiction. With the changing nature of violence and crime, Levies have had to face many professional challenges. With insufficient resources, lack of training, absence of political patronage, and a deteriorating law and order situation, they find it hard to perform their given functions over the vast geographical territory under their charge. In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, Balochistan in the last two decades has experienced an escalation in terrorist activities, insurgencies, and sectarian violence, besides conventional crime. This has given rise to a perceived need for reforming or upgrading the Levies. There is, however, no evidence-based and empirical harmonization approach between the police, the Levies, and other law enforcement agencies in Balochistan. Such long-running perceptions for reform resulted in the unveiling of a policy for merging Levies into the police with no rigorous determination of the demand or systematic analysis of data. The merger ended up as a blindfolded experiment that brought the law and order situation in the province to its lowest status. This study claims that the merger was not the solution to such a crisis. Instead of the merger, the authorities should have strengthened the current departmental structure, arranged for fulfilling the need for professionalism, refined and/or developed supplemental procedures, improved implementation, provided for monitoring and organisational coordination among all law enforcement agencies for preserving and promoting public order and peace
dc.identifier.urihttps://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/6553
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUMT, Lahore
dc.titlePRESERVING AND PROMOTING PUBLIC ORDER AND PEACE- A CASE STUDY OF BALOCHISTAN LEVIES
dc.typeThesis
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