Intensify crusade against drug menace, Punjab CM tells police Officers
Chairing a meeting of the Commissioners of Police (CPs) and Senior Superintendents of Police (SSPs), the CM asked the officers to adopt a zero tolerance policy against drugs.
Chairing a meeting of the Commissioners of Police (CPs) and Senior Superintendents of Police (SSPs), the CM asked the officers to adopt a zero tolerance policy against drugs.
He advocated the use of modern technologies like artificial intelligence to make the Police Department more efficient.
After Khalistan sympathiser and 'Waris Punjab De' chief Amritpal Singh was arrested by Punjab Police, the father of the radical preacher Tarsem Singh said Amritpal was working to save people from the drug menace in the State.
Shiv Pratap Shukla called upon the people of the state to cooperate at every level so that the youth could be saved from falling prey to drug abuse.
Rohit Thakur directed the Education Department to make necessary policy changes in education system.
Bhagwant Mann directed officers to accelerate ‘enforcement, de-addiction and prevention’ to make the state drug-free.
The drug menace was destroying generations and the profits being made from the drugs were being utilised for terrorism as well, the Union Home Minister claimed while replying to the debate in the Lok Sabha.
A1985-batch former Tamil Nadu cadre IAS officer, Jagmohan Singh Raju (59), joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Punjab before the February 2022 Assembly polls after 35 years of service.
Addressing a Press conference, chief spokesperson Manwinder Singh Kang said the AAP government has successfully managed to curtail the flow of drugs into the state by arresting drug lords in the past four months.
5.57 kilogram (kg) heroin, 17 kg opium, 25 kg ganja, seven quintals of poppy husk, and 2.25 lakh intoxicant pills among other drugs were recovered in cordon and search operations in drug-affected areas and installing check-posts on vulnerable routes across the state.
