Capital City Police Officer Bilal Siddique Kamyana directed divisional SPs to focus on the better performance of their subordinate officers besides emphasizing hardcore policing.
Presided over an important meeting at his office here on Friday, he reviewed the performance of the Iqbal Town Division, law and order, crime control, public service delivery and other professional matters. He announced a reward for SP Iqbal Town Salman Liaquat and his team for their commendable performance. In anticipation of Eid-ul-Adha, the CCPO instructed the officers to closely monitor cattle theft gangs and issued orders to intensify operations to prevent motorcycle theft. Bilal Siddique Kamyana urged police officers to perform their duties with hard work, dedication, and commitment, making public service their hallmark. He stressed the importance of field monitoring by SDPOs and leading teams to arrest wanted criminals. The CCPO emphasized that effective crime fighting is the top priority for Lahore Police and encouraged officers to ensure justice for the oppressed, thereby increasing public trust in the police department. Furthermore, the CCPO directed health screenings for officers and personnel to assess their physical fitness, highlighting that this would have positive impacts on their health and duty performance. DIG (Investigations) Zeeshan Asghar, DIG (Operations) Muhammad Faisal Kamran, SSP (Admin) Atif Nazir, SSP (Investigation) Anoosh Masood Chaudhry and other officers from the Iqbal Town Division including SPs, ASPs, Circle Officers, SHOs and Investigation In-Charges attended the meeting.
Police teams arrested more than 16,000 dangerous criminals across the province in the previous month of May. According to the details, Police teams arrested more than 7,500 wanted criminals and proclaimed offenders of robbery, murder and other crimes.
As many as 5165 judicial fugitives wanted in various cases were also arrested in the crackdown while more than 3000 (habitual criminals) target offenders were also arrested and put behind the bars. Punjab Police Spokesman said that the police teams also arrested 893 criminals of 355 criminal gangs during the operations.
More than 29 crore rupees worth of stolen goods recovered from the criminals were handed over to the original owners. Punjab Police Spokesman further said that so far this year, police teams have extradited more than 40 proclaimed offenders wanted for murder, kidnapping and other crimes from foreign countries and transferred them to Pakistan.
