Vigilance at 24 police stations to be enhanced

Under National Action Plan, other measures will also be taken, including checking of profile of tenants

LAHORE:

It has been advised to tighten the security of 24 police stations across the district, including RPO and CPO offices.

Under the National Action Plan, other measures will be taken apart from checking the tenants, the cameras of schools and colleges.

CPO Rana Ayaz Saleem told The Express Tribune that after the terrorism incident in Peshawar Police Line and Mianwali Makarwal, now the District Security Committee of Gujranwala had decided to tighten the security of the police offices, officers and police stations.

Rana Ayaz Saleem said that the police were being targeted and after the policemen were martyred, it had been decided that the security of police checkpoints, police stations, schools, colleges and government offices would be tightened under the National Action Plan.

Since terrorists lived on rented houses and then committed crime, therefore, all the SPs, the SDPOs, the SHOs had been ordered to conduct search operations in the areas with the help of security officers and beat officers.

Apart from Tenancy Act, there would be strict checking of the people coming to the CPO office, fingerprints would be taken at the gate, their mobile phones also taken and the staff would be on alert and posted on checkpoints.

Similarly, the security of the RPO office and police stations would also be tightened.

The CPO said that attention would be paid on the installation of CCTV cameras, security of schools, colleges and other places. CPO Rana Ayaz Salem said that search operations were going on at the surroundings of the police line as well as SOS operations were being conducted across the district in which those who had had criminal records would be arrested, and action would also be initiated against those who gave them shelter.

The police officials had been ordered not to harass the citizens unnecessarily, and the citizens should also cooperate with the police.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 7^th, 2023.