Inspector General of Police Punjab Shoaib Dastgir sought a report containing police actions against criminals and anti-social elements from all RPOs and DPOs of the province and also directed to speed up the intelligence based operations so that properties and lives of people may be secured and service delivery may be improved.
Likewise, under the supervision of DPO Mandi Bahauddin Nasir Sial, police teams during actions against proclaimed offenders, court absconders, thieves, dacoits, drugs dealers and illegal Arms holders arrested 201 proclaimed offenders implicated in heinous crimes during last month. Police teams also seized 21 Kalashnikov rifles, 17 guns, 14 rifles and 74 pistols and registered 124 cases against the offenders. In a campaign against drugs dealers, 53 cases have been registered and 32 kg chars and 225 bottles of wine have been recovered. Whereas 38 lac rupees have also been recovered from arrested accused of three gangs and amount of more than 18 million rupees have been recovered from the accused involved in theft, dacoity, cattle lifting, robbery and vehicles lifting, moreover the said stolen amount has been handed on to real owners. In an action against gamblers and kite flying hundreds of kites and kite metallic threads have been recovered whereas 33 cases have been registered against power theft.
DPO Mandi Bahauddin said that the door of his office will remain open for public and provision of justice is among his top priorities, open courts are being held in this regard. DPO Nasir Sial said that elimination of crime form the society is top priority of district police, the criminal activities are being noosed in this regard and district police is fully alert in maintaining law and order and also securing lives and properties of the citizens. IG Punjab strictly emphasized that the security plan of all sensitive places, religious spots, educational institutions and public places should be reviewed and deputed officials on security duty should be given briefing regarding sensitivity of their duties and challenges posed to them so that they may perform their duties in an efficient way.
