GUJAR KHAN, Oct 25: Five additional police stations would be set up in the Rawalpindi district to ensure effective policing in the region.

This was stated by city police officer Rawalpindi Syed Saud Aziz while talking to Dawn here on Thursday.

He said recommendations had been made to the higher authorities for the bifurcation of the jurisdictional limits of five police stations.

He said Gujar Khan police station would be bifurcated into Gujar Khan city and Gujar Khan Saddar police stations, as the city needed another police station due to its growing population and vast jurisdictional area.

Similarly, Murree, Chauntra, Wah Cantt and Civil Lines also needed one additional police station each.

Enumerating the one-month performance of the police, he said over 24 gangs of dacoits, robbers and highwaymen were apprehended and 29 gangsters involved in heinous crimes were booked.

He said notorious robbers Bishu and Kashif were re-arrested after their escape from the police custody and gold ornaments and household items worth millions of rupees were recovered from their possession.

The CPO said two boys kidnapped for ransom from Rawalpindi and Mandra were also recovered.

He said a gang of dacoits involved in about 30 cases of highway robberies and dacoities in Kalar Syedan, Kahuta, Kotli Sattian and Rawalpindi city was busted and six dangerous dacoits -Faisal Shahzad, Aamir Shahzad, Asad Mahmood and Qaisar Jamshaid-of Kahuta tehsil; and Aftab Ahmed and Danish Rauf, residents of Attock were arrested and the looted money, cellp-hones, motorcycles and illicit arms recovered from their possession.