By Ashrafuddin Pirzada
LANDIKOTAL: District Police Officer(DPO) doctor Muhammad Iqbal on Monday said that during the last year they have recovered millions of rupees worth of narcotics items and arrested 624 culprits in district Khyber.
Dr, Muhammad Iqbal was speaking at a news conference held at Shahkas police station in Jamrud. He said during the past year total of 422 untoward incidents took place in district Khyber. He said police took timely actions and arrested those involved in criminal activities.
“ I have waged war against corruption mafia, narcotics dealers, outlaws, and other criminals and conducted raids on the narcotics dens recovered a huge quantity of contrabands”, said DPO.
He said they have so far seized 113 kilograms of heroin, 611 kilograms of hashish,81 kilograms of opium, and six kilograms of Ice drug in various raids on the narcotics dens and heroin factories in the district Khyber. He said they have arrested 116 culprits and cases have been registered against them.
Regarding the conversion of Khasadars into the regular police force, Iqbal said that they have adjusted 3741 Khasadars into the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police force in the last year. He said during the current coronavirus pandemic 373 police personnel have been deployed at various quarantine centers in the district.
The police officer said that Khyber traffic police have also done a tremendous job and recovered Rs2.9 million as traffic violation fines in one year. He said a law was under consideration to regularize those who performed duty as proxy Khasadar in the police force.
“Khyber police force is committed to fighting against all social evils, maintaining peace, and helping innocents at any cost”, said DPO Khyber. He added that they have recovered millions of rupees worth of contrabands in the past four months which was appreciable.
Replying to a question, Muhammad Iqbal said on the directives of IGP Sanaullah Abbasi all Khyber police force personnel were made eligible for police welfare funds.
He said the Khyber police force onward would get equal benefits in Shuhada packages when any police personnel dies during duty.
