Falak Sher
MARDAN
Mardan police has arrested 2,520 wanted persons and 1,241 facilitators in and registered 20,786 FIRs of different nature in the last year, a senior police officer said.
Addressing meet the press program at Mardan press club district police officer (DPO) Zahoor Babar Afridi said that in 2024, 223 people died in firing across the district, 3 police cops martyred and 12 police cops injured in militancy incidents. He added that 45 dacoits involved in robbery were arrested, 1,201 accused of aerial firing were arrested.
DPO added that 495 Kalashnikov rifle, 148 Kalakov, 390 rifles, 464 guns, 8,608 pistols and 123,864 rounds were recovered from illegal weapons,1,750 kg of hashish, 46 kg of heroin, 316 kg ice, 1.5 kg of opium and 653 liters of alcohol were recovered during different operation against drug dealers.
He added that police also arrested 192 gamblers. Zahoor Babar Afridi said that services were provided to 67,663 people at Mardan police service center. He added that 22,643 applications for driving licenses were processed in the last year. DPO Zahoor Babar Afridi said that 2,173 applications were disposed of under police access service and PMDU.
He added that services were provided to 23825 people through foreign disk. He appealed to the masses to cooperate with police and give information about aerial firing, narcotics sellers and suspected people. SP traffic Saeed Khan, DSP City Ajab Khan and other officials were also present at this occasion.
