Karachi: After losing 24 of its personnel to COVID-19 since last year, the Sindh Police has requested the provincial government’s authorities to declare its personnel frontline workers so they are vaccinated early.
Mohammad Tariq Nawaz, the Additional Inspector General of Sindh Police (AIGP) (Welfare), wrote a letter to the Additional Chief Secretary of the Sindh government’s Home Department in this regard.
The letter said that till April 5, 2021, a total of 6,366 personnel of Sindh Police had been infected with the COVID-19. Among them, 6,297 personnel had recovered, while 24 had died.
“Being frontline fighters, police personnel of Sindh Police are exposed to the risk of being infected with this deadly virus while controlling the traffic on roads, moving UTPs (under-trial prisoners), dealing with protestors, and mob situations, performing security duty with the VIPs and VVIPs, guarding quarantine centres, performing burial duties, ensuring sealing of affected areas, and imp
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CIA police foil bid of smuggling drugs in Jacobabad
National
December 20, 2020
SUKKUR: The CIA police on Saturday have foiled a bid of smuggling of drugs, when they seized 5 kilograms opium from a vehicle stopped after suspicion at Sindh-Balochistan border in Jacobabad.
SSP Jacobabad Tariq Nawaz said the police at Sindh-Balochistan border had recovered 5 kilograms high quality opium from the secret boxes of a double cabin van and taken Aamir Mengal, resident of Quetta, and Zainul Abideen Kerio, resident of Nawabshah, into custody. He said during investigation, the arrested criminals had revealed that they were smuggling opium from Balochistan to Karachi and were the members of the international drug handlers.