4 years ago
A Code of Conduct for Nepal Police Employees to Follow has been issued. Inspector General of Police Shailesh Thapa Chhetri has issued the order.
The mandate has been deemed necessary to improve the conduct of the police personnel along with the responsibility of protecting the livelihood of the citizens, protection of public property, crime control and investigation.
Inspector General Thapa said that the mandate should make the police personnel polite, dignified, accountable, conscientious, ethical and committed to discipline.
Fully implementing the mandate issued by the Inspector General of Police is the mandatory responsibility of the employees affiliated to the police organization.
Code of Conduct
1) To treat the service recipients equally while treating the service recipients without any kind of request or prejudice or hatred, and to show high ethics of enhancing the dignity of the police organization and working office.
2) The police personnel should be punctual in their conduct, duty, honesty and promptness in their personal conduct and discipline. Should not engage in activities such as degrading, demeaning, commenting, joking, expressing gestures on the basis of caste, gender, religion, sect or body.
3) To establish brotherly and cordial relations between the police officers and the youth by assimilating the police professionalism.
4) To keep up to date with the work and performance of the office and to develop the habit of doing today's work today and to keep the institutional record of the work done by him/her in the prescribed format.
5) The police personnel involved in financial transactions and budget operations will literally follow the prevailing financial act, rules, directives issued by the concerned Ministry of Finance and the provisions in the police act and regulations and maintain financial transparency.
6) Police personnel should be made to provide services to the service recipients in accordance with the citizen friendly concept when they are under the responsibility of any district or technical group based on the nature of work.
7) Police personnel should provide services in a speedy, comfortable and accountable manner by using polite and courteous speech while performing their duties and providing services and giving priority to people with different abilities, senior citizens and children.
8) Police personnel shall not meet, contact and cooperate with foreign missions, foreign diplomats and national and international non-governmental organizations without obtaining permission as prescribed.
9) Police personnel shall not participate in, address, comment or make other comments related to the program unrelated to their official responsibilities and obligations.
10. Police personnel should not use the media for personal gain or greed for their personal popularity and should not leak or disseminate information for the same purpose.
11) To publish, broadcast, like, comment, share, tag, tweet, re-tweet activities on social media that disrupt national integrity, incite communal riots, promote terrorist activities, disrupt peace and security and affect criminal investigations. They should not do or cause such activities.
12) To protect, promote and enforce the prevailing international and national law, human rights principles adopted by the Government of Nepal and the police organization in the course of performance.
13) Even though it is natural to shake hands as a greeting, the opposite sex should not be hugged, touched, pinched as soon as the opportunity arises.
14) A separate monitoring committee formed at the Police Headquarters, Metropolitan Police Office, State Police Office, Federal Police Unit Office, Metropolitan Police Complex and District Police Office will monitor if the code of conduct is followed.
