Mar 28, 2025 09:36 AM IST
The event got here near the heels of the Punjab Police chief directing all of the commissioners of police (CPs) and senior superintendents of police (SSPs) to establish and catalogue the principle drug suppliers/peddlers of their respective districts inside seven days.
Punjab Police has shifted focus to dismantling high-level drug networks by focusing on massive fish, together with drug suppliers and kingpins fuelling the narcotics commerce within the state, stated director normal of police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav right here on Thursday.
Punjab DGP Gaurav Yadav (HT)
“We are not stopping at street-level arrests of drug peddlers/smugglers. Punjab Police teams are now rigorously questioning all the arrested drug peddlers/smugglers to trace and identify the big fish in the narcotics trade in the state,” the DGP stated whereas addressing a press convention right here at Punjab Police Headquarters right here.
The event got here near the heels of the Punjab Police chief directing all of the commissioners of police (CPs) and senior superintendents of police (SSPs) to establish and catalogue the principle drug suppliers/peddlers of their respective districts inside seven days.
The DGP stated that the anti-drugs marketing campaign ‘Yudh Nashian Virudh’ launched by the Punjab authorities on March 1 has resulted in arrest of 4,142 drug smugglers after registration of two,384 first data experiences (FIRs) throughout the state and led to restoration of 146.3 kg heroin, 85.3 kg opium, 19.95 quintals poppy husk, 7.69 lakh intoxicant tablets/capsules, 1 kg ICE and ₹5.83 crores drug cash from the possession of drug smugglers.
He revealed that the continuing crackdown has led to a drastic discount in street-level drug availability, prompting police to now pursue the large fish behind the provision chain.
He stated that every one the cops have already been mandated to personally oversee the mapping train to organize particulars of the suppliers funnelling medicine of their respective areas and catalogue them on the premise of interrogation experiences, public suggestions, intelligence inputs, information from the protected Punjab helpline and backwards and ahead linkages unveiled in legal investigations below the Narcotic Medicine and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
The DGP additional stated that taking a cue from the success of village defence committees (VDCs), the Punjab Police is now set to type ‘Mohalla Committees’ in city areas as a part of its intensified warfare in opposition to medicine.
“Just as VDCs strengthened rural policing in border areas, Mohalla Committees will empower urban communities to fight the drug menace collectively,” the DGP stated whereas emphasising that citizen involvement is essential to eradicate drug menace from the state.
The DGP additionally urged the residents of the state to make most use of Protected Punjab Anti-Drug Helpline ‘9779100200’ to report drug traffickers anonymously.
