Daily Times

Punjab Police Inspector General Shoaib Dastgir on Friday directed all RPOs and DPOs to submit the police action details against the criminal and anti-social elements, and said that intelligence-based operation must also be speeded up to protect the lives and properties of citizens.

He further directed to review the security plan of sensitive installations, religious places, educational institutes and public places ensuring a briefing to the security duty officials regarding sensitivity and challenges of the duty.

In this regard, DPO Jhelum Syed Hammad Abid while sharing the progress of last month shared that police teams are working day and night to eliminate drugs, anti-social elements and to improve the public service delivery projects. He further shared that in different actions during last month Jehlum police arrested 54 proclaimed offenders and 67 other criminals recovering a large amount of drugs and unlicensed weapons. He further said that in action against drug peddlers 39 cases were registered and 41 accused arrested while 2.37kg heroin, 18.1kg charas and 82 bottles of liquor were recovered, while 26 accused were arrested on possession of unlicensed weapon and two rifles, three guns, 18 pistols, 135 bullets and one revolver were recovered. On the violation of tenant registration act, 2 FIR were registered and 6 accused were arrested, while 2 accused were arrested due to open sale of petrol against the law. Moreover, stolen goods of total value of Rs 1,571,650 were also recovered. Snipe checking and search operations are also being conducted across the district to uphold the rule of law and to uproot the criminal elements.