Ensure safe, secure festive season: Punjab DGP to officials

Punjab Police today directed all concerned officials to ensure implementation of preventive and precautionary measures to provide safe and secure environment to citizens during the festive season.
Director General of Police Suresh Arora, in a communique to all Commissioners of Police, Zonal IGPs, Range DIGs and district SSPs, said maintenance of law and order, peace and communal harmony, especially during the ongoing festival season was their foremost responsibility.
The CPs and SSPs have been asked to ensure mobilisation and deployment of maximum number of police personnel at religious places, market areas, shopping malls, multiplexes, bus stands, railway stations, sensitive installations or points, major inter-sections and crowded places, he said.

Other than preventive measures, suitable operations to detect and apprehend anti-national and criminal elements should be undertaken. Security of threatened persons should also be a priority area for field police officers, the DGP said.
Arora advised the field officers to plan and implement preventive precautionary measures to ensure peace and communal harmony in the state and not to leave their headquarters till Diwali which is on November 11.
Sikhs owing allegiance to different organisations and hardliners have called a 'Sarbat Khalsa' (congregation of Sikhs) at Amritsar on November 10 in the wake of Akal Takht's recent decision to exonerate Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and later revocation of its directive.

Also a series of incidents following desecration of the Holy Book at different places have led police to take extra preventive measures during this festive season.