LAHORE :Lahore Police during a crackdown on the persons involved in heinous crimes arrested 988 proclaimed offenders, court absconders and target offenders in the current year.
DIG Operations Lahore Sajid Kiani said that out of the total 988 arrested offenders, as many as 457 were proclaimed offenders whereas 236 were target offenders and 295 court absconders. Sajid Kiani said that Lahore police had devised a special strategy to arrest the proclaimed offenders (POs) as most of them were found involved in heinous crimes, including illegal possessions, murders, attempts of murder, kidnappings for ransom, extortions and narcotics. All the divisional SPs, SDPOs and SHOs have been directed to meet the target of arrest of the POs and TOs and speed up the crackdown on them as overall performance of the police officers and officials will be evaluated by the targets achieved in this regard.
(The News)
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