Lahore:Capital City Police Chief Additional IG Fayyaz Ahmad Dev in a press conference held at District Police Lines Qila Gujjar Singh has said that journalists community is an integral part of Lahore police for maintenance of law and order in the city and reform of society.
Lahore police is full committed to provide complete security to the citizens including journalist community and would utilize all possible resources for this purpose.
Fayyaz Ahmad Dev was sharing details of the arrest of four accused persons including main culprit involved in the blind murder of senior crime reporter of a private tv channel Husnain Shah.
Hasnain Shah was shot dead in a target killing attempt by unidentified men near the Lahore Press Club, Simla Pahari Chowk on January 24. Lahore Police took prompt action and using using latest technology and professional skill tracked the suspected killers involved in murder and afterwards arrested four of them. CCPO Lahore Fayyaz Ahmad Dev said the murder of Husnain Shah was most shocking, sorrowful and condemnable incident however Lahore police on the directions of Chief Minister Punjab and IG Punjab traced the criminals in very short period of time as journalist community had felt unsafe on after 
this cold blooded murder.
DIG Operations Dr Abid Khan, SSP Operations Capt(R) Mustansar Feroze, SSP Investigation Imran Kishwar, SP City Hafeez ur Rehman Bugti accompanied the CCPO Lahore in the press conference.
The CCPO Lahore said he had formulated three different teams to trace and arrest the criminals. One team consisted of DIG Operations, SSP Operations and SP City. Other team was comprising DIG Investigation and SSP Investigation whereas the third team consisted of SP CIA. Fayyaz Ahmad Dev said DIG Operations Abid Khan and his team was the very first to get the clue of the murderers. He particularly commended the performance of DIG Operations, SSP Ops and SP City to trace and arrest the accused persons.
Fayyaz Ahmad Dev assured the media men that Police will soon arrest the shooters in the case.
CCPO Lahore said Lahore police had traced all the high profile cases including shooters of MPA Bilal Yaseen, attackers on FBR Collectors, robbers of Chinese dacoity incident, murderer of Traffic Warden and now the accused of of Husnain Shah murder.
He said the incidents of reported crimes including dacoity, robbery, illegal possessions, vehicles snatching and theft have minimized to fifty percent according to the helpline 15 call data of PSCA. Fayyaz Ahmad Dev said Lahore Police would not allow any goons and law breakers to disturb peace of the city and deal with them with iron hands. Commander Lahore police reiterated his resolve to protect life and property of the citizens. He also said that Lahore police will soon give good news regarding the arrest of accused involved in Anarkali Blast. He assured media persons regarding transparent investigation on merit and strong prosecution in case of murder of Husnain Shah so that the accused could be assured conviction of their deeds by the court. Media persons and Police officers also offered Fateha and prayed for the departed soul.
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Later CCPO Lahore gave away appreciation letters to SSP Operations Mustansar Feroze and SP City Hafeez ur Rehman Bugti. He also distributed commendable certificates and cash awards among DSP Mian Qadeer, SHO PS Shadbagh Maqsood Ahmad, SHO PS Shafiqueabad Malik Khalid, SHO PS Sjahdara Waseem Akhtar, SIs Imran Khan, Zulqarnain, Basharat Ali, TASI Asad Maqbool, ASI Farooq, Zulfiqar, Head constable Muhammad Khalid, Inam, Muhammad Irfan, Constable Mubasher Alam and Zulfiqar.
