Chandigarh: Director General of Police, Punjab, Gaurav Yadav, said on Monday that security measures have been stepped up across the state, especially along the districts bordering Pakistan, ahead of the ensuing festival season following intelligence inputs indicating possible attempts to disturb the peace in the region.
Interacting with newspersons after chairing a high level meeting with senior officers in Amritsar, DPG Yadav said that there are intelligence inputs indicating that Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency of Pakistan, is trying to disturb the peace in Punjab in the backdrop of Op Sindoor. Stating that 57 additional companies including seven from the Border Security Force (BSF) have been deployed in this wake, he said that the state police had busted over 26 terror modules and nabbed their 88 operatives in the past few months.
DGP Yadav also held that the activities pertaining to attempts to smuggle arms and drugs from across the border were also on rise because of the recent floods in the region and the police had nabbed smugglers and seized over 78 pistols from them in the past few days.
The law and order review meeting was attended by ADGPs and other senior officers of commissionerate police Amritsar and Border Range including Amritsar rural police, Batala, Gurdaspur, Pathankot and Tarn Taran in which special emphasis was laid on proactive policing and intelligence coordination ahead of the upcoming festival season.
