Press conference: Police recover stolen vehicles

Keys handed over to owners.

RAWALPINDI:

The Rawalpindi police have recovered 20 stolen vehicles during an operation from various parts of the garrison city.

This was disclosed by City Police Officer (CPO) Abdul Razzaq Cheema at a crowded press conference held at CIA Headquarters on Wednesday.

“The Rawalpindi police acting jointly with the Anti-Car Lifting Cell (ACLC) team recovered 20 stolen cars from Rawalpindi city and its suburbs” he added.

Addressing the press conference, CPO said that taking notice of increasing incidents of car-lifting in the city, he constituted a 12-member team of ACLC headed by CIA SP which was supervised by SSP (Operations) Mujahid Kamran. They worked day and night to recover the stolen cars. For the purpose, the police team set up check-posts on all the entry and exit points of the city.

Cheema said ACLC members could not recover this many vehicles even after more than a year, but his 12-member team recovered them in just two weeks. “I trained the team which did very well,” the CPO said. He promised that the ACLC team would now recover 120 stolen cars every month.

Replying to a query, Abdul Razzaq Cheema said that Rescue 15 does not have complete data of registered vehicles, which was why owners of second-hand vehicles faced difficulties sometimes. He gave the assurance that he would try his level best to arrest gangs of car lifters.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 16^th, 2013.