To help former detainees avoid reoffending and return to society as productive, law-abiding citizens, Haripur police and the Human Development Organisation (HDO-Pakistan) will jointly arrange psychological rehabilitation sessions for people who have completed their sentences or whose cases are still under trial.
Shafiullah Khan Gandapur, the DPO of Haripur said this while addressing to the journalists the other day.
The briefing was also attended by Muhammad Ahsan Khan the Director of Programs HDO-Pakistan and Muhammad Zaigham Khan the young social worker.
The main purpose of the enforcement of law and order in the society was to protect the citizens’ life, dignity, and honor, as protecting the basic human rights and dignity is also a priority for the police departments said by the DPO
“We hate crime but not the individuals and under the vision of KP IGP, we are going to introduce social-reintegration of ex-detainees for the first time in the history,” stated by the DPO.
Mr Gandapur proposed a plan for former detainees to help them adjust to normal life.
He suggested that the police departments should gather the information about all former detainees including people who have served their jail time, those who are out on bail, and those still facing court cases, in their region.
The Haripur police and HDO will set up mental health support sessions for these people, and the program will be thoroughly executed across the region once the list is made.
When asked, The DPO made it clear that if former detainees trying to turn their lives around and live responsibly face any harassment from any police officer, the officer will face punishment under police laws.
The journalists were told by Mohammad Ahsan Khan, the HDO’s Director of Programs, that most detainees go through anxious, stressful, and challenging experiences from the time they are arrested until they reach jail.
Their mental state and trauma often become even worse once they are in prison.
“In absence of trauma-informed rehabilitation facilities in the public sector hospitals, such detainees especially those from poverty-stricken families, develop different psychological disorders and get entrapped into vicious cycles of relapsing into criminal activities thus burdening not only the society but also the national exchequer,” he observed.
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