GUJRANWALA, June 7: All senior police officers have been transferred from Gujranwala to Lahore within a few days and now there is only one SP looking after affairs of all circles in the district.

City Police Officer Ghulam Mehmood Dogar was promoted and made deputy inspector general of police (operations) in Lahore.

SSP (Investigation) Shaukat Abbas was given additional charge of CPO office after Dogar's transfer to Lahore, but he was also transferred a day later and made SSP (operations) in Lahore. Sadar SP Khurram Shoaib was transferred and made Model Town SP in Lahore. City SP Rai Ijaz Ahmad was away for a one-month training course. SP (Headquarters) Ali Javed Malik and SP Civil Lines Ghulam Mubashar Maken are working in the district, but Maken is on leave and Malik alone is left to oversee matters of his department in district.

It's said that former Gujranwala DIG Malik Ahmed Raza Tahir, who is now working as capital city police officer in Lahore, is behind these transfers, as he is forming his team to control crime in the Punjab capital.

One wonders why Regional Police Officer Mubarak Ahmed has allowed all these transfers without substitutes.