GUJRANWALA: City Police Officer Waqas Nazir says crime graph in the district has fallen 30 per cent and drug trafficking has also reduced.

Speaking at the Gujranwala Chamber of Commerce and Industry, he said 13,000 cases of dacoity and robbery had been reported since 2010.

He said police had arrested more than 1,500 people in these cases but they could not be given exemplary punishment by courts for lack of witnesses.

He said a command control and communication centre was being constructed on Sialkot by-pass intersection at a cost of Rs 4 billion to trace criminals through CCTV cameras.

He said Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif would inaugurate the centre soon.

Earlier, GCCI president Samiullah Naeem expressed his dissatisfaction over police performance and said police had failed to combat street crime.

Published in Dawn, March 15th, 2016