Chief of Police Karachi, Ghulam Nabi Memon has issued directives to fire police officials in Sindh police who are found consuming alcohols, opium, gutka, and other tobacco-chewing products. Assistant DIG Police Junaid Ahmed, has circulated the letter to all the DIGs, SSPs, and other departments in this realm.
The letter urges Police officers to identify officials in their respective departments who consume tobacco-related products or drugs. It instructs the officials to serve notices to these officers and terminate them if needed. The Establishment branch has constituted teams to conduct inspections of the regional police department.
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“Unit head shall be responsible if any of its officers found using the prohibited products,” read the notice.
The directives came in the aftermath of the media reports, which claimed that several drug-peddlers are operating under the covert supervision of the Police officials in Sindh Police. Such directives are issued to curb the involvement of Police officials in breeding crime in the city, to identify and punish the culprits within the Sindh Police department found violating the laws.
The ambit of the targeted operation against bandits will stretch from, Shaheed Benazirabad, Larkana, Sukkur, and up to Khairpur.
IG Sindh Syed Kaleem Imam had urged his subordinates to take strict action against such police officials and make an example out of them.
Sindh Police, on the orders of CM Sindh Murad Ali Shah, has initiated a rigorous campaign against drug-peddlers throughout Sindh. Earlier, Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Syed Murad Ali Shah had directed Sindh police to keep strict vigilance on the drug peddling in educational institutions.
The Sindh government is now mulling over expanding the ambit of the operation against the bandits after fresh cases of kidnapping for ransom reported from various districts of Sindh. The ambit of the targeted operation against bandits will stretch from, Shaheed Benazirabad, Larkana, Sukkur, and up to Khairpur.
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The Additional IG Karachi was working to crush street criminals while the operation against bandits in Northern and Central parts of Sindh was need of the hour.