LAHORE, April 2: Chief Secretary Javed Mahmood on Wednesday indicated firing of re-employed officials, especially in police, saying retired personnel could not help improve law and order.

Talking to reporters at his office, Mr Mahmood also hinted at a plan to improve the administrative system at the provincial as well as district level for ensuring good governance.

When asked what he would do to improve law and order, he said this could not be done with retired personnel given re-employments. “We will try to post hardworking and honest officers who could deliver. Right now we are checking who is working where.”

He said he was also going through the lists of retired officers given re-employment by the past government with a view to show them the door, hastening to add that only those found ‘indispensable’ would continue.

The chief secretary said he was also checking the service profiles of the officers working in districts, so that only the honest and efficient could be posted their to improve governance.

Similarly, he said, he would select a team of able officers to run the province.

The chief secretary said he did not have any problem with the officers senior to him and no objection as well if anyone of them wanted to go to the federal government. Those choosing to stay in Punjab would have to follow the government policy, he added.

He said he had not as yet ordered withdrawal of extra official cars from the administrative secretaries. He said he was checking the lists of official vehicles, and all officers would have to use them strictly according to their entitlement.

The chief secretary denied the lists of the officers to be transferred or posted in Punjab were being prepared by PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif, adding he was sending such cases to the caretaker chief minister.

RING ROAD: The chief secretary directed the officials on Wednesday to remove all hurdles delaying the completion of Lahore Ring Road.