GUJRANWALA, May 28: Six police reporting centres are being set up in four towns of the city and one each at DIG and DPO offices under the police reforms.

These centres will start functioning from June 1 while one each legal inspector will be deputed with every town police officer to ensure the registration of FIRs.

Range police chief Zafer Abbas Lak told journalists here that some 1,100 constables and 421 traffic inspectors were also being recruited in Gujranwala from July 1 to revamp the police system.

He said the Punjab government had allocated Rs4 billion for the construction and renovation of 618 police stations in the province.

The government, he said, would pay Rs20,000 to a DSP and Rs15,000 to an SHO under police reforms. He urged nazims of union councils to help police by deciding minor cases.

Mr Lak claimed that the range police arrested 855 members of 209 gangs of dacoits and robbers and recovered looted goods worth Rs41.6 million from their possession during a special drive launched against them till April 30. DPO Dr Arif Mushtaq and other senior officers were also present on the occasion.

TARGET: The food department claimed to have achieved the wheat procurement target by purchasing 15 million wheat bags throughout the division.