Police action against hardened criminals underway: CCPO.

LAHORE -- Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Lahore Additional IGP Bilal Siddique Kamyana said on Monday that the biggest challenge for the Lahore police at present was the arrest of proclaimed offenders (POs) and hardened criminals, who have been found involved in most of the crime incidents in the city. He said crackdown on notorious and hardened criminals was under way with full force. The Lahore police arrested 12,886 proclaimed offenders (POs), tarAgeted offenders (TOs) and court abscondAers (CAs) during this year until now. The CCPO had given the task to all divisional SPs and SDPOs to meet the targets of arArest of the criminals according to the lists, provided to them earlier. Bilal Kamyana said that under the special campaign, proAclaimed and targeted offenders as well as court absconders involved in heinous incidents of crimes have been arrested on a daily basis. The CCPO said that opAerations, investigation, anti-vehicles...