Building standards for professional policing, and acting as national think tank on issues relating to criminal justice reform, public safety and police information technology.

Reshaping police into a professionally competent, operationally neutral and publically accountable service-delivery organization.

NPB is headed by a Director General, generally a very senior Police Officer of BPS 21/22, with its headquarters based at Islamabad. The current Director General of the NPB is Dr Ehsan Sadiq, PSP