Staff Reporter
Peshawar
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Dr. Sanaullah Abbasi in a video link conference with police high-ups of the newly-merged districts (NMDs) on Sunday reviewed the force’s performance of the last five months regarding terrorism, target killing, kidnapping for ransom, extortion and other crimes.
According to details, the IGP KP Dr Sanaullah Abbasi was taking keen interest to put in place more effective and best policing practices in the merged tribal districts to control the crime rate. The reports presented by the concerned police high-ups, revealed best performance and effective policing in NMDs, as a record decrease in the incidents of terrorism, kidnapping for ransom, target killing, terror financing and extortion had been witnessed during last five months.
According to police report terrorism incidents in 2020 had decreased by 50%, the terror financing had decreased by 75%. Extortion, target killing and kidnapping for ransom had decreased by 75%, 80% and 100% respectively as compared to 2019 which had no parallel in the past. Likewise, the attacks on police and other LEAs had decreased by 70% and 50% respectively as compared to the corresponding period of the year 2019.
Moreover, cases of honor killing had also been registered and all the accused arrested and would be brought to justice very soon.
Similarly, tribal areas had been merged into main land and police had done a good job for establishing the writ of law. During this period 134 terrorists had been arrested while 52 had been killed in encounters / operations by the police.
Similarly, 78 cases had been traced so for while 10 of the terrorists were convicted from the relevant courts in 2020.
