RAWALPINDI, Dec 24: Punjab Inspector General of Police Tariq Saleem Dogar on Friday stressed the need of strengthening intelligence network to combat terrorism in a better way.

He expressed these views while addressing a special police darbar held in Police Lines Rawalpindi to give him farewell on retirement.

He said that usually information received from the intelligence sources in vague indications made it difficult to trace out the culprits, but where the intelligence was received through human resource like from the public, the results are far better.

Regional Police Officer (RPO), Rawalpindi, Additional I.G. Police Hamid Mukhtar Gondal, CPO Rawalpindi Muhammad Wisal Fakhar Sultana Raja, DIG Special Branch, DPOs of Jhelum, Attock and Chakwal Tayyab Hafeez Cheema, Dr Akhtar Abbas and ALil Mohsin, SPs, DSPs and large number of police officers and officials were present on the occasion.

The IG said that police officers being true soldiers of Islam could win hearts of the people by providing justice to them on merit.