800+ NAKAS INVOLVING OVER 10000 POLICE PERSONNEL DEPUTED ACROSS THE STATE
— TO MAKE PUNJAB CRIME-FREE & SAFE, CM BHAGWANT MANN INSTRUCTED PUNJAB POLICE TO WIPE OUT ALL ANTI-SOCIAL ELEMENTS FROM STATE
– ADGP/IGP RANK OFFICERS PERSONALLY SUPERVISED THIS SPECIAL OPERATION IN EACH POLICE DISTRICT
– BASIC PURPOSE OF CONDUCTING THESE OPERATIONS TO SHOW POLICE PRESENCE IN FIELD & BOOST CONFIDENCE AMONG GENERAL PUBLIC: DGP GAURAV YADAV
– DGP PUNJAB REITERATES THAT PUNJAB WILL BE FREED FROM DRUGS & GANGS, ANTI-SOCIAL ELEMENTS WON'T BE SPARED
Chandigarh, (Gurpreet) In yet another move aimed at giving loud and clear message of the Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to anti-social elements that they have no place in the state, Punjab Police, on Saturday, have conducted a Special Vehicle Checking Operations in all the 28 Police districts. Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav has himself gone in the field to conduct random checking of different Naka Points in Ropar Range.
Over 800 well-coordinated Nakas— including 56 Inter-State, 250 Inter-District, 53 Hi-Tech and 427 City sealing, involving over 10000 Police Personnel, were set-up in the state with an aim to make Punjab free from Drugs and Gangsters.
The operation was conducted in a synchronised manner from 4pm to 7pm across the state and ADGP/IGP/DIG rank officers from Punjab Police Headquarters were deputed in each Police district to personally supervise the operation. All the CPs/SSPs were asked to mobilise a maximum number of officers and manpower for this operation to lay strong ‘nakas’ at district/city sealing points under the supervision of Gazetted officers/SHOs.
The DGP said that during an operation, a thorough search of suspected vehicles/persons was ensured while ensuring minimum inconvenience was caused to the general public. “We had strictly instructed all the Police Personnel to deal with every commuter in a friendly and polite manner while checking their vehicle during the course of this operation,” he added.
DGP Gaurav Yadav, who had joined ADGP Law and Order Naresh Arora and SSP Ropar Sandeep Garg in Ropar to personally supervise the checking of vehicles, said that they have strict directions from Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to root out all the anti-social elements from the state to make Punjab a crime-free state. “Such operations would continue till the menace of drugs and Gangsters wiped out from Punjab,” he said.