Punjab Police intensified the crackdown against proclaimed offenders and criminals involved in organized crimes
In the last 01 month, more than 16,000 dangerous criminals have been arrested across the province. Spokesman of Punjab Police
Under the supervision of Inspector General Police Punjab, Dr. Usman Anwar, Punjab Police is continuing its crackdown against proclaimed offenders and criminals gangs involved in organized crime. In continuation of which, police teams have arrested more than 16,000 dangerous criminals across the province in the previous month. According to the details, Police teams arrested more than 7,500 wanted criminals and proclaimed offenders of robbery, murder and other crimes. 5165 judicial fugitives wanted in various cases were also arrested in the crackdown while more than 03 thousand (habitual criminals) target offenders were also arrested and put behind the bars.
Spokesman Punjab Police said that the police teams also arrested 893 criminals of 355 criminal gangs during the operations. More than 29 crore rupees worth of stolen goods recovered from the criminals, handed over to the original owners. Spokesman of Punjab Police further said that so far this year, police teams have extradited more than 40 proclaimed offenders wanted for murder, kidnapping and other crimes from foreign countries and transferred them to Pakistan.
IG Punjab Dr. Usman Anwar instructed the police teams to perform their duties more diligently. Dr. Usman Anwar directed to focus on investigation, with effective use of modern technology and arrest more criminals and brought to the justice. IG Punjab said that RPOs, DPOs should personally superwise the crackdown and targeted operations against criminals.
(Handout No. 567)
Syed Mubasher Hussain
Director Public Relations
Punjab Police
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