Police to target drunk drivers on New Year’s Eve

Special squads formed to check youths on bikes.

LAHORE:  

The police have formed special squads to stop young people from drinking and driving, racing vehicles and indulging in other activities that pose a danger to them and others on New Year’s Eve, said Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Ahmad Raza Tahir on Wednesday.

 

More than 10,000 police personnel will be deployed in the city on the night of December 31, particularly at busy roads like The Mall, Jail Road, Main Boulevard and Ferozepur Road, the city’s police chief said in a press release.

 

“Strict action will be taken against those transgressing the limits, indulging in drinking, aerial firing, one-wheeling, aggressive racing and hooliganism,” said the press release. Tahir said that divisional superintendents of police (SPs) had been directed to find out if any events or parties are to be held on January 31 in areas under their control and to make sure that they are lawful. “No immoral or illegal activity will be tolerated, as no person is above the law. Heavy fines will be levied on persons flouting the law. Recklessly-driven vehicles and motorcycles will be impounded and persons indulging in illegal activities arrested.”

 

The city’s police chief appealed to citizens to warn their children to be careful on New Year’s Eve, and to particularly warn them not to try and perform wheelies on their motorbikes, a stunt which kills many people each year.

 

He said that any officers who failed to control drinking, aerial-firing, dangerous driving and hooliganism would be punished.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, December 29^th, 2011.