Lahore police have showed extraordinary performance during the month of February 2016, by arresting 183 accused of 71 gangs here in Lahore and 153 cases have also been registered against them while an amount of about 89,00,000 Rs. has been recovered from the gang’s members.
According to details, DIG Operations Dr Haider Ashraf directed police officers for the implementation of National Action Plan and to utilize their full energies to curb the crime in the city and arrest the criminals involved in different unlawful activities. On his directions, all divisional SPs speeded up their efforts against criminals and showed excellent results during the month of February 2016 by arresting 183 criminals of 71 gangs who were involved in different heinous crimes, 170 POs, 1090 CAs included in A&B categories were also arrested.
During the month of February, 362 cases were registered against 363 accused over possession of illegal weapons and police also recovered 04-kalashinkov,19-rifles, 15-guns, 304-revolvers& pistol’s, 02-carbine, 05-daggers and 2942 bullets from their possession.
During the action against drug dealers, 617 cases were registered and 621 culprits were arrested and 32 KG, 116gm heroine, 181kg, 590gm opium and 4478 bottles of liquor were recovered from them. Moreover, 120 cases were registered against gamblers and 452 accused were arrested. In the same period during the special crackdown 397 cases were registered against 428 culprits over violation of law.