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“We were supposed to have quasi-judicial and magisterial powers but stakeholders in the government and the bureaucracy were not in any position to give us the ‘teeth’ to maintain law and order in the Valley,” AIG Pratap Singh Thapa, chief police commissioner, said at a function marking the 11th Metro Police Day in Kathmandu, Wednesday.
Several reports have been prepared with government stakeholders and experts to realize the metro police concept but these have remained useless, he stressed.
The police leadership has been raising issues such as authorizing political gatherings and protests, imposing curfews when necessary, exercising preventive detention powers, and licensing hotels, lodges, massage parlours and entertainment businesses, among other things. As per the metro police concept, police in the Valley have also sought an end to the dual command system.
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