Information: Punjab Police’s website to be updated

New portal to carry information about unclaimed bodies, missing persons

LAHORE: IGP Mushtaq Sukhera said on Monday Punjab Police’s website would be upgraded to provide information about the stolen vehicles recovered, missing persons and unclaimed bodies.

The IGP said this at a meeting at Central Police Office.

The meeting decided that photographs, DNA test reports, fingerprints and autopsy reports of unclaimed bodies would be uploaded on the new website.

Participants of the meeting agreed to make the website’s homepage more public- friendly. Contact numbers and photographs of all RPOs, CPOs, DPOs and former IGPs will also be part of the web portal.

The IGP said that in order to ensure better liaison between the Counter-Terrorism Department and Investigation Departments, a list of terrorists and “hardened criminals” must be prepared with input from both departments.

The participants also discussed the Specialised Protection Unit’s (SPU) performance, promotion of police drivers and the computerisation of all purchased items.

Establishment Additional IGP Naseemul Zaman, Operations Additional IGP Arif Nawaz, Welfare and Finance Additional IGP Sohail Khan, Punjab Highway Patrol Additional IGP Javaid Islam, Legal Additional IGP  Ali Zulnorain, Headquarters DIG Farooq Mazhar, Establishment-I DIG Azhar Hameed Khokhar, Establishment-II DIG Nawaz Warraich, SPU DIG Tariq Nawaz Malik, PHP DIG Salman Chaudhry, Crimes DIG Dr Azam, Research and Development DIG Rana Muhammad Iqbal, Monitoring DIG Shafique Gujjar and Welfare and Finance DIG Jan Muhammad attended the meeting.

Police praised for safe Eid

Operations DIG Haider Ashraf praised Lahore police on Monday for adopting stringent security measures on Eid.

In a statement, he said Lahore police had done well to make sure that the feast was peaceful.

The agencies concerned had issued various security alerts for the holiday, the DIG said.

“The credit [for maintaining order] goes to Lahore police. They have set an example of sacrifice by remaining vigilant on the occasion.” He said more than 10,000 policemen had been deployed at mosques, imambargahs, graveyards and buildings declared sensitive for security.

Ashraf said action had been taken against some banned organisations for collecting hides of sacrificial animals. More than 15 FIRs have been registered and over 35 people arrested in this regard, he said.

Nearly two dozen camps being run by them were also dismantled, the DIG said.

He said that the city police had been making all-out efforts to curb terrorism and sectarianism.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 29^th, 2015.