ABSTRACT
When it comes to police reform, Pakistan is an anomaly. In almost all societies, police reform is seldom initiated by the police, but by politicians who demand better service delivery often in response to individual crises, such as police shootings or allegations of widespread corruption and mismanagement (Savage, 2007, pp. 1-45). This is even more the case in countries struggling with enormous security challenges and in various stages of transition from authoritarian rule to democracy (Shaw, 2000). In Pakistan, all this has been present, but politicians remain uncommitted to major reforms of the police, most particularly in changing current accountability arrangements. By contrast, it is members of the senior hierarchy of the police who advocate for reform, but have found little support either from the political class or from parts of the senior civil service.
