Drive against tinted glasses, weapon holders to begin today: IGP

Quetta police will launch a full-fledged crackdown against tinted glasses and unregistered vehicles, and weapons holders from Monday aimed at ending crimes and improving order in the provincial capital, Balochistan Inspector General of Police Asif Nawaz Waraich told reporters here on Sunday.
When asked whether police would also take action against tinted glasses owned by ministers, the IGP said that police would also take action against all influential persons as they had already been informed about the special campaign against tinted glasses, unregistered and holding fake documented vehicles aimed at maintaining and improving law and order in the city.
He said that police contingents headed by an officer would be deployed at all key points to check all people irrespective of their ranks during the first phase of the campaign in the city. He also warned that police would also take strict action in accordance with the law against pillion riders in the valley.
The IGP asked the people to lend co-operation to police and remove their tinted glasses and avoid pillion riding in order to make the campaign a success against anti-social elements in the provincial metropolis.
He said that police would increase patrolling both on vehicles and motorbikes in order to check and reduce crimes in the valley. He said that CCPO Quetta Hmayun Jogezai had already taken into confidence and onboard the traders' community and tribal elders regarding the campaign, which would help in ending crimes and improving order in the city.
Referring to the relief operation being carried out by Balochistan police, the IGP said that an NGO Bali Trust in Punjab had provided relief goods worth Rs 2.5 million to the police department which were sent by the department through seven trucks to quake-hit areas on Sunday.
He said that these relief goods included; edible items, un-sewed warm clothes, jackets, blankets and other staples. He said that the relief goods sent by people of Punjab reflected their love and affection for their calamity-hit brothers and sisters of Balochistan.
The IGP said that Balochistan police had sent relief goods amounting to Rs one million preliminarily after the earthquake of October 29 to the affected areas of the province.