PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Inspector General of Police Zulfiqar Hameed on Monday said that all available resources were being utilised to provide the police across the province with necessary equipment and facilities in view of the delicate law and order situation.

He also said the department had sent special summaries to the provincial administration for the provision of modern “war gadgets”.

The IGP said this while handing over armoured personnel carriers (APCs) and ambulances to senior district police officers at the Central Police Office here in the presence of all additional inspectors general and deputy inspectors general, according to a statement issued by his office.

The officers belonged to Peshawar, Charsadda, Lower and Upper Dir, Kohat, Karak, Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan, Tank, Abbottabad and Shangla.

The APCs included six Hyder-class and two Dragon-class vehicles, along with 10 modern ambulances carrying medical equipment and other necessities to ensure that personnel injured in the field receive timely first aid before being transported to the hospital.

The IGP said that modern APCs were being provided to the police to ensure the safe movement of personnel during emergencies and operations for their protection.

He said that those vehicles would ensure safe movement of personnel in emergency situations and during operations.

Mr Hameed said that the fast-moving ambulances, equipped with essential field medical supplies, would help promptly transport personnel injured in terrorist attacks and operations to the hospital and save lives.

The issue of the KP police department’s lack of modern weapons and other equipment was raised by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif during a meeting of the federal apex committee on Oct 22.

He had regretted that terrorists had been brought back even after peace was restored in 2018.

Published in Dawn, October 27th, 2026