KARACHI:Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah Wednesday directed Sindh police to keep a strict vigilance on narcotics peddling in educational institutions.
This is a serious matter and must be handled seriously. Children are future of Pakistan and are our children and we have to bring them up in a safe, secure and healthy atmosphere,” he said while presiding over a weekly meeting on law and order here at the CM House today. The meeting was also attended by Information Advisor Murtaza Wahab, IGP Sindh Dr Kaleem Imam, Principal Secretary to CM Sajid Jamal Abro, Home Secretary Kazi Kabir, Additional IG CTD Dr Waliullah Dall, Karachi Commissioner Iftikhar Shahlwani, DIG CTD Abdullah Shaikh, DIG South Sharjeel Kharal, DIG East Amir Farooqi and DIG West Ameen Yousifzai.
The chief minister said that whenever he met parents, they urged him to take strict action against narcotics peddling in educational institutions. “I am quite concerned about our children,” he said and added that they were innocent and could be moulded towards good and bad things. “They are our children and we have to make them safe from such evils,” he said.
DIG South Sharjeel Kharal told the chief minister that he had arrested an important culprit involved in developing a group to peddle narcotics in educational institutions. IGP Police Kaleem Imam said that on instructions of the chief minister, the police had already launched a targeted operation against the drug mafia and busted different gangs.
Shah directed the secretary education to develop a coordination between private educational institution administrations and the police and also involve the parents, if necessary, to develop a mechanism to stop narcotics peddling into the educational institutions.
Giving progress of last week’s meeting decisions, the DIG informed that he had held few meetings with DHA authorities for installation of more CCTV cameras and fixing of faulty ones. “The street lights in DHA and Clifton areas are being improved and upgraded,” he added.
The IGP told the chief minister that the culprits of the Chinese Consulate attack had successfully been arrested. At this, the chief minister directed the Home Secretary to issue instructions to all the security agencies to get verification of their guards. “I want security audit of all the guards employed by security agencies,” he said and added apart from verification of their personnel, inspection of their weapons must be checked. “I have noticed that most of the private security guards are untrained which is dangerous,” he said.
Additional IG CTD Dr Waliullah Dal and DIG CTD Abdullah Shaikh briefed the chief minister about busting of a gang involved in making fake armed licenses, even of the banned bores.
IGP Kaleem Imam said that on the pointation of the arrested culprits (involved in making fake license), their facilitators in police department and DC offices had also been taken into custody.
DIG East Amir Farooqui and DIG West Amin Yousif Zai briefed the chief minister about the steps taken by them to curb street crime. They said that they had launched a crackdown against street criminals involved in mobile and bike snatching. They added that the street crime ratio had come down as compared to 2018 period.
The IGP said that he had created a special force of 10 to 20 well-trained policemen being stationed at SSP offices so that they could be called in case of any eventuality. The first batch of such force had been posted at South Zone in the first phase and in the second phase, such deployment would also be made in other zones. This initiative has been made after attack on Chinese Consulate when police force was called from different police stations.
The IGP said that he was preparing a mechanism to start recruitment round the year. “Over 10,000 policemen retire from their service every year; therefore, recruitment process as approved by the chief minister was being started,” he said.
The chief minister said that the police had to make its training centers more professional for new recruits and in-service trainings.
He said two important events, PSL and Multinational Naval AMAN exercises were coming over. The police had to provide them security; therefore, necessary meetings with the concerned quarters must be held.
It may be noted that the chief minister had started reviewing law and order situation all over Sindh every week. It was the third review meeting in this regard today.