Lahore police undertake crackdown against criminals involved in heinous crimes

Lahore: Lahore Police during its crackdown against criminals involved in heinous crimes has arrested as many as 6026 Proclaimed and Targeted Offenders as well as court absconders during this year till now. Spokesperson Lahore Police said that out of these total6026offenders, as many as2217 were Proclaimed Offenders whereas 984 Targeted Offenders and 2825 were Court Absconders. Accordingly police arrested 317 POs of category ‘A’ and 1900 POs of category ‘B’. Lahore Police also arrested as many as 250 proclaimed offenders from the other districts. Police arrested 51 court absconders of category ‘A’ whereas 2774 CAs of category ‘B’ this year till now. The Capital City Police Officer Lahore Additional IG Fayyaz Ahmad Dev has said that Lahore Police has devised a special strategy to arrest the proclaimed offenders as most of them have been found, involved in heinous and hardcore crimes including illegal possessions, murders, attempt of murders, kidnappings for ransom, extortions, narcotics. All the divisional SPs, SDPOs and SHOs have been directed to meet the target of the arrest of these POs and TOs and speed up crackdown against these criminals as overall performance of these Police officers and officials will be evaluated by their targets achieved in this regard.