The Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIGP), Larkana Range, Javed Akbar Riaz, claimed, on Monday, that the Larkana Range police busted 11 criminals during the last three months. The DIG said that during the same period, as many as 81 police encounters took place in which three notorious criminals were gunned down and eight criminals were arrested in injured condition. The Larkana Range police also arrested 828 proclaimed offenders and 928 absconders and recovered five kilograms explosive material, one machine gun, 11 Kalashinkov rifles, 67 short guns, 130 pistols and 1285 bullets from their possession, he added. He further said that during the crackdown against drug peddlers, the police recovered 243.725kilograms hashish, 339.5kilograms cannabis, and 591liters wine from their possession and registered cases against them. The DIG vowed to protect lives of citizens at all costs adding that the facilitators and harbours of criminals would never be tolerated and they would soon be taken to task. It is worthy to mention here that the Larkana Range police cover five districts of Larkana Division which include Shikarpur, Jacobabad, Kambar-Shahdadkot, Kandhkot-Kashmore and Larkana districts. Published in Daily Times, October 2nd, 2018.