WORKING of different departments under Lahore Drug Free City Project during the first six months of the current year was reviewed in a meeting on Monday.
CCPO Aslam Tareen, who is also chairman of the project, presided over the meeting. The meeting was informed that as many as 4233 cases were registered while 4368 people were arrested who were involved in drug business and 115.644 kg heroin, 25.288 kg opium, 590.552 kg charas and 28412 bottles of liquor were recovered during the period in connection with the ongoing crackdown against drug sellers.
Lahore Police registered 63 cases u/s 9C CNSA against listed drug lords while ANF raided 41 drug dens during the period.
The meeting was attend by Brig Shahid of ANF, Project Manager LDFCP Maj Nadeem Abbas, DG Social Welfare Malik Muhammad Aslam, DIG Operations Rai Tahir, SSP D&I Shariq Kamal, representatives of Health, Excise & Taxation, DGPR, Customs, Railways Police, Auqaf, Sports, Education departments and others concerned.
CCPO Aslam Tareen asked the participants on the meeting to work with full devotion, strength and dedication to make Lahore a drug free city and discharge their duties with religious zeal & commitment so that society was purged of this menace.
He directed all departments to send progress reports regarding their working besides ensuring that the focal persons appointed by the departments attended the LDFCP meetings in person instead of sending some other representative so as to make the meeting progress oriented.
He said that the Civil Lines Division has been declared drug free zone in accordance with the project targets and asked Special Branch to report in case this activity was still found to be in operation so as to enable action against the black sheep involved.
He directed SSP Sahriq Kamal to prepare and circulate a performa regarding the progress reports to all departments besides making Labour Department preparing a database of drug use amongst the workers so that steps could be initiated against such people.
Maj Nadeem Abass informed that 522 workshops, walks & rallies, pictures exhibition, puppet shows, banners, hoardings, TV talk shows and write-ups in media were arranged under the awareness campaign besides arranging lectures at educational institute, factories etc along with use of social media for the purpose and as many as 4543538 people were approached through these means.
DG Social Welfare Malik Aslam informed that Medical Social welfare officers of four teaching hospitals at Lahore recorded case histories of 876 drug users out of 990 brought there for treatment, held meetings with families of 469 and 373 such patient were detoxified during the period.
Moreover 100 grounds were restored for providing sports and healthy pursuits to the citizens by the PHA.
(The News)
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