Special investigation wing in police stations by Dec: DGP State police chief says new unit will conduct probe into criminal cases Tribune News Service A woman pays tributes to her martyred relative policemen with their arms during the Police Commemoration Day function in Jalandhar on Monday. (Top) A woman pays tributes to her martyred relative and (above) policemen with their arms during the Police Commemoration Day function in Jalandhar on Monday. Tribune photos: Malkiat Singh Relatives rally for job Patiala: The Police Commemoration Day function here turned out to be an occasion of submitting applications for seeking a government job by the kin of the martyred policemen. The function began at the Police Lines around 7.30 am but no senior politician turned up for the event, thus leaving it to the Police Department to meet the aggrieved relatives of its personnel who died on duty. — TNS Jalandhar, October 21 Punjab Director General of Police (DGP) Sumedh Singh Saini today said police stations across the state would get a separate investigation wing other than the routine law and order unit in the next two months. Saini, who was here at Punjab Armed Police headquarters for the state Police Commemoration Day, said he was positive the wing would take shape by December. Accompanied by ADGP (administration) MK Tiwari, Saini said all criminal cases would be thoroughly investigated by the special unit while the regular team would take care of day-to-day crime. The DGP said a separate investigation cell was set up in February 2008 in Fatehgarh Sahib, Sangrur and Bathinda but it could not take off properly. “We will now do it in an appropriate manner. We already have Superintendents of Police (Detective) for the job, but now it will be a team functioning with more precision and strategy,” he said. Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal too had announced a plan to have a separate investigation wing during a function at the armed police headquarters two months ago. Regarding drug smuggling, Saini said 100 kg of heroin had been recovered in 2011, 277 kg in 2012 and nearly 300 kg to date this year. He said the pattern of supply and delivery had been tracked with smugglers largely in the police net. “We are now zeroing in on the peddlers,” he said. The DGP said the police was also keeping tabs on elements uploading pro-Khalistan information on internet. “The youngsters who have actually not been through the terrorism phase that ended in mid-nineties are being exposed to information, which may not be partly correct. Watching it on web, they tend to believe things as these appear and can get carried away, which can prove disastrous.” Defending Tarn Taran Senior Superintendent of Police Rajjit Singh who allegedly tried seeking his daughter’s admission in martyr’s children quota, the DGP said it was “in no way a case of fraud, as was being projected”. Saini along with other officials and family members of the martyred police personnel laid wreaths at the memorial. He said 576 police officers had lost their lives this year across the country, 12 of whom were Punjabis. Nawanshahr: Senior Superintendent of Police Dhanpreet Kaur, Deputy Commissioner Anandita Mitra, former MLA Mohan Singh Banga, District Planning Committee chairman Dr SK Sukhi were among those who paid tributes to the police martyrs during a function at ITI Grounds here.
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