DGP: Police geared to tackle cross-border terror threats

AMRITSAR: Learning lessons from the terror strike at Pathankot Air Force station attack and to be able to deal with cross-border terrorism, one thousand vacancies in the state police force were being filled. This was disclosed by Punjab Police chief Suresh Arora on Thursday.
While talking to newspersons here on Thursday, Arora said an assistant inspector general (counter-intelligence) had already been posted in Pathankot, while a new post of the inspector general of police (counter-intelligence) had been created at Amritsar to deal with such border threats.Another post of superintendent of police (operations) had also been created at Pathanakot, he added.
The DGP, however, refused to divulge the operational preparedness of Punjab Police in dealing with cross-border terrorist attacks, stating that such information couldn't be given out into the public domain.
Arora was here to supervise the process of destroying the narcotics seized by the state police, at Khanna Paper Mills.
While expressing concern over incidents of gang war, he said IG of special task force (STF) had been assigned with the duty to deal with inter-state gangs and as a result police had cracked several cases. From now onwards, seized drugs wouldn't be kept in police stations but in centralized 'malkhanas'.