{"id":65113,"date":"2024-02-27T17:08:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T17:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/cop-suspended-over-social-media-policy-violation-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2024-02-27T17:08:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T17:08:07","slug":"cop-suspended-over-social-media-policy-violation-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/cop-suspended-over-social-media-policy-violation-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Cop suspended over social media policy violation | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nFAISALABAD:
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A police constable was suspended from service on the charge of violating the department\u2019s social media policy.<\/span><\/p>\n

A police spokesman said on Monday that Constable Bahawal Sher, deputed at the Lorry Adda police post, had shared his video on the social media while smoking a cigarette in police uniform and placing two pistols on a table in front of him.<\/span><\/p>\n

Taking serious notice of the matter, City Police Officer (CPO) Captain (retired) Muhammad Ali Zia directed the Lyalpur Division superintendent of police to probe into the incident and submit a report besides taking action against the official.<\/span><\/p>\n

SP Rana Rehman Qadir immediately suspended the constable and directed him to report to the Police Lines. <\/span><\/p>\n

He was also issued a show-cause notice, after which further departmental action would be taken against him.<\/span><\/p>\n

The CPO said that the Punjab inspector general of police had prohibited the police employees from using social media in uniform. <\/span><\/p>\n

They were also barred from recording their videos and sharing them on the social media.<\/span><\/p>\n

Published in The Express Tribune, February 27th<\/sup>, 2024.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FAISALABAD: A police constable was suspended from service on the charge of violating the department\u2019s social media policy. A police spokesman said on Monday that Constable Bahawal Sher, deputed at the Lorry Adda police post, had shared his video on the social media while smoking a cigarette in police uniform and placing two pistols on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/social-media-services-disruption1704635156-0\/social-media-services-disruption1704635156-0.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faisalabad-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t