Security for Chehlum, Local Govt elections reviewed

LAHORE
In order to review security arrangements for the Chehlum of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA) and the 3rd phase of local government elections, evaluation of the performance of Homicide Investigation Units, a video link RPO conference was held under the chairmanship of Punjab IGP Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera at Central Police Office. The conference expressed satisfaction over the performance of the Punjab police during the two phases of local government elections. The conference decided to follow the security SOP of Muharram during the Chehlum on December 3. According to the proposals of field officers, it was decided that the police will collect surety bonds from all the contesting candidates and all licensed weapons will also be collected three days earlier of the 3rd phase of elections and the licenses of the violators will be canceled. It was also decided that nobody will be allowed to hold victory rallies particularly in front of the houses of losers and their offices. The deployment at polling stations will be finalised after receiving the field officer’s demands within two days. To ensure the foolproof security arrangements on both the occasions, snap checking and search and sweep operations will be started from Thursday (today), decided in the conference. A crackdown against the vehicles having tinted glasses and unauthorised green number plates will also be started. While reviewing the performance of the newly established Homicide Investigation Units, the conference decided to provide each district a mobile forensic lab having all equipment for collection of evidences from the crime scene. The vehicles which will be provided to each Homicide Unit will be properly labeled of homicide investigation unit’s logo. The conference also decided that in future all recruitment and transfer’s records will be sent through sealed envelops and no officers and official will be allowed to carry his personal record. IGP said software for H.R data of Punjab police has been prepared and all record in this regard will be completed very shortly. He was informed that the required record for issuing the ATM cards to the widows of police employees to get their financial benefits will be completed within a week. IGP also directed the field officers to ensure that all SHOs of “A” Category must be appointed in police stations and no kind of pressure would be acceptable by appointing the bad reputed SHOs.
The maintenance of the grace of uniform must be ensured at any cost and nobody will be allowed to damage it, decided in the conference. ­
Two die: A 70-year-old man was killed by a bike in front of Jinnah Hospital. The victim identified as Ramzan was crossing a road in front of Jinnah Hospital when a rashly-driven bike hit him, killing him on the spot.
The bike rider rode away from the scene. Police shifted the body to morgue.
Meanwhile, an 18-year-old youth was killed by a train. The victim yet to be identified was crossing rail tracks when he came under the wheels of a moving train, resulting into his instant death. Body was removed to morgue.
Meanwhile, a 12-year-old boy died under mysterious circumstances in his Mughalpura house on Wednesday.
Police said the boy identified as Awais of Gunj Bazaar along with other children was playing in his house when a rope he had put around his neck tightened. As a result, he died. Police shifted the body to morgue for autopsy to ascertain the cause of the death.
FACTORY COLLAPSE: Punjab Emergency Service (Rescue 1122) DG said after successful emergency management of Sundar factory collapse where they safely evacuated 103 alive victims after hectic efforts comprising of 131-hour long continuous urban search and rescue operation, Rescue 1122 again came up with the desires of the public and safely rescued 221 alive victims including male, female and children from a cold store at Badamibagh, where ammonia gas leakage left scores of labourers unconscious and fainted. “Rescue 1122 Hazmat Unit comprising trained rescue personnel wearing Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) along with emergency equipment stepped in the cold storage of potatoes and apples located in Badamibagh area,” he said, adding swift response by rescue teams prevented this incident becoming to disaster.
The DG said more than 10, 000 residents were evacuated from a suburb in the outskirts of a City in Sichuan Province of China on 11th August, 2015 after a toxic gas leaked from a fertilizer plant. Likewise, some 3, 787 died in Bhopal Gas Tragedy in India in 1984 and the gas leakage caused 558,125 injuries, including 38,478 temporary partial injuries and approximately 3, 900 severely and permanently disabling injuries.
He said not only in developing countries, even in developed countries like UK; France, Scotland, America and other European Countries several precious lives were lost and caused permanent disabilities to thousands of workers during such incidents.