Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday said 10,000 new recruitments in the police will be made to root out drugs, as he highlighted the state’s fight against the drug menace.
Speaking at Maharaja Ranjit Singh Academy, Phillaur, after honouring police officers, he said police have full freedom to take every legitimate action against drugs and directed them to go to villages and towns, take people along and crack down on the menace.
He said ‘Yudh Nashean Virudh’ has now become a mass awareness movement across Punjab, while the police force will soon get 450 ASIs and 3,400 police personnel.
The state government is expanding and modernising the police force, he said, adding that “We are directly recruiting 450 ASIs. Around 3,400 recruits are currently undergoing training, while 10,000 additional police posts are proposed to be advertised in the coming financial year.”
“This is a historic initiative through which I, along with the Director General of Police, am directly engagin
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Punjab to add 10,000 police personnel in fight against drug menace: CM Mann
