The local district police have finalised the security arrangements of 9th and 10th Muharram processions. The police have chalked out a foolproof security plan to ensure peace, religious and sectarian harmony and to avert any untoward incident in Gujranwala division's all the six Sialkot, Narowal, Gujrat, Mandi Bahauddin, Hafizabad and Gujranwala districts, as the special duties of the 13,143 police personnel from a SDPO and constable have been affixed.
Regional Police Officer (RPO) Gujranwala Region Zulfiqar Ahmad Cheema disclosed this while talking to the newsmen here. Sialkot DPO Waqar Ahmad Chohan, Additional SP Sialkot Ather Ismail, SP (Investigation) Sialkot Ali Javaid Malik, senior member Sialkot District Peace Committee Zafar Malik, SDPOs and other police officials were also present on this occasion.
RPO said that the police have also started the strict checking of all the entry points in all the cities, besides, establishing the CCTV cameras in all the routs of the processions Gujranwala division. He said that the audio and video cassettes would also be recorded during the Majalis and other religious rites. He said that as many as 500 personnel of Elite Force and more than 4000 police Razakars, besides, deploying the special police in the sensitive declared points of Gujranwala divisiona.