Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Tuesday issued instructions to the Punjab Police to register cases against drug lords operating in State and attach their properties. He gave the deadline of a month to break supply chain of drug smugglers and put them behind bars.
Chairing a review meeting of SSPs of all the districts here, the Deputy Chief Minister said it should be ensured that no cases are registered against innocent people and corruption should be rooted out at thana level. He said that as part of a specialised campaign against drugs, people must be made aware at village level and at ward level in urban areas and also police officers from ADGP to SP rank should hold public meetings and exhort people to co-operate in eliminating drug menace. Badal further asked for total diligence and devotion to duty on the part of police personnel to put a complete stop to the cross border infiltration of narcotics.
The Deputy Chief Minister instructed the SSPs to form five-member police-public co-operation committees at village and city level to create awareness and curb the activities of anti-social elements. He also gave the target of covering 3,000 villages of the State in six months for this purpose.