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Superintendent of Police Gujranwala Athar Waheed was suspended on Wednesday for not obeying orders to arrest political workers.Talking to Geo News, Athar Waheed said the basic responsibility of police was to provide justice to the people. He said that police were primarily a services institution and its status as a forces institution was secondary. It is not a tool for politicians to settle their scores, he said. The police official said the dignity of police suffers and its reputation damaged when politicians use it for self-interest. The police had arrested many during the tenure of Musharraf and the PML-Q, he said, adding though none of them is on the scene now but by following their orders the department has lost much of its dignity and respect.The suspended police official believed that the primary objective of the police was to enforce the law and help in the dispensation of justice. “According to me, a police officer also has a conscience and should refer to it while performing his duties.îHe said that every policeman takes oath at the Police National Academy to obey the lawful orders of the superiors. ìThere should be concrete evidence to justify confiscation of a personís freedom.î While referring to the arrest of political leaders in the province, he said: ìThese are the same politicians with whom we had discussed transfers and postings of police personnel and we were answerable to them. But today we are being ordered to scale the walls of their houses and enter into their homes, insult the inmates and denigrate the sanctity of the household.îHe said some politicians were ordering them to do so keeping in view their personal interests. ìBut eventually itís the police to lose, not the politicians,î he added. ìWhether there is long march or not, my question is that when a policeman in Britain can arrest the son of prime minister Tony Blair for being drunk, why we canít even imagine such things here. We canít because the police are the loser in our country.î He said though it is generally believed police are all powerful in the country, but on the contrary they have been disgraced by the politicians. ìHow can we deny a citizen of his fundamental rights to the freedom of speech and movement?î