Inorder to further intensify the ongoing Drive Against Drugs, Director General ofPolice (DGP) Punjab Dinkar Gupta, during a high-level virtual meeting onSunday, directed all the Police Chiefs to launch a crackdown against the drugsmugglers/suppliers in their concerned areas.
“Identifyall top drug smugglers and the hotspots infamous for drugs smuggling in yourconcerned areas and launch a combing operation to nab all thoseselling/smuggling drugs,” said the DGP in a meeting, which was attended by allthe senior Police Officials including ADGPs, IGsP, DIGs, CPs and SSPs.
Hesaid that under the zero tolerance policy against the drugs, every Commissionerof Police (CP) and Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) should not let thesale of drugs in their concerned jurisdictions.
TheDGP also directed the Police officials to periodically conduct organised raidsin Jails falling in their jurisdictions to break the Prison-Drugs nexus. Healso ordered the District Chiefs to effectively forfeit the property of all thearrested drug smugglers so that their ill-gotten money could be recovered.
Toeffectively destroy the case property of drugs lying in the Malkhanas of PoliceStations across Punjab, the DGP ordered Police Chiefs to make a proposal todestroy all the narcotics by July 31, 2021 as per the procedure.
DGPGupta also asked the officials to arrest all the Proclaimed Offenders (POs)besides asking them to send detention proposals under the NDPS act so thataction could be taken against kingpins.
Meanwhile,ADGP Special Task Force (STF)-cum-Internal Vigilance Cell (IVC) B ChandraShekhar, while sharing details of various drug recoveries made by districtsacross the state during the period from January 01, 2021 to April 30, 2021 saidthat as many as 3073 FIRs have been registered under NDPS Act while 4160persons have been arrested. He said that a total of 196 Kg Heroin, 2 Kg smackand 261 Kg opium was recovered in the last four months.