The National Highways & Motorway Police (Urdu: نیشنل ہائی ویز اینڈ موٹروے پولیس), abbreviated NHMP, is a police force in Pakistan that is responsible for enforcement of traffic and safety laws, security and recovery on Pakistan's National Highways and Motorway network.

The Inspector General of Police (Enforcement) Mr. Afzal Ali Shigri was tasked to prepare the plan for the new force.

He was ably assisted by Mr. Shamim Ahmed, a junior officer from the National Transport Research Cell.

He conceived, developed and prepared a comprehensive proposal to establish an efficient and modern highway police for the new motorway.

The rank structure is as follows: For policing purposes, the national highways and motorway network is divided into the Nine Zones, each headed by a DIG and supervised by three Addl.

In addition, services of armed forces were also utilised for advance driving skills particularly for motorcycles.

It is worth mentioning that all the above development have been made with the limited available resources under the previous guidance and encouragement of the Worthy Inspector General, NHMP who has been taking personal interest to make the Training Institute a hub of learning and road model for all other Police Training Institutes in the country.

After study of the current policing system and the culture... a comprehensive training strategy is devised to build a force which is honest, professional, dedicated and service – oriented.

Physically and mentally fit candidates are then ready for National Highways & Motorway Police Training.

Scientific and latest equipment are procured by spending huge government exchequer and utilised to curb the tendency of violation on National Highways & Motorway.

The pilot project was initiated in collaboration with PITB in July 2015 and the first trials were conducted in August 2015.

After successful trials, the system was expanded and implemented on all Motorways and National Highways on 25 January 2018.

[1] For his successful design and implementation of the system, Mr. Abbas Ahsan received an appreciation letter from the Inspector General of Police Dr. Syed Kaleem Imam and was nominated for a Civil Award.

E Ticketing is a technology-oriented solution in which the Patrol Officers are equipped with a hand held device connected with central data server.

It enables the officers to issue tickets to commuters on the spot, verify vehicle registration, license information and maintain a retrievable and geo-tagged record of rules violations.

In addition, the system tracks and keeps a complete record of the performance of each officer along with timestamps and geo-tags.