Efforts on to make Ludhiana safest in Punjab, DGP tells businessmen

As part of the ongoing initiative to engage with various sections of society, Director General of Police (DGP), Punjab, Gaurav Yadav, on Wednesday held a tête-à-tête session with industrialists in Ludhiana for exchange of views and obtaining suggestions on public safety improvements.

“Ludhiana being an industrial hub, we want to give the best law and order situation to make it as the safest city in the state. You will see a lot of improvements in coming days,” the DGP promised industrialists.

DGP Gaurav Yadav was here in Ludhiana to flag-off 14 new vehicles added to the city police control room (PCR) through the corporate social responsibility (CSR) funding and inaugurate the renovated Gazetted Officers’ (GO) Mess at the Police Lines here.

“With addition of the new vehicles, the total strength of the PCR fleet increased to 71,” he said.

Yadav, during an informal interaction with the industrialists, has taken first-hand feedback from them on city’s law and order situation. He assured to resolve majority of their issues which included shortage of police force, inadequate CCTV cameras in the city, cyber frauds emerging as major threat, traffic congestions and night security. The DGP was accompanied by Commissioner of Police (CP), Ludhiana, Kuldeep Chahal, and Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police, Ludhiana Range, Dhanpreet Kaur.

“I assure you (industrialists) that the Ludhiana Commissionerate Police will get its rightful share from the 10,000 new vacancies announced by the state government in the Police Department,” he said while directing the CP to make temporary arrangements to double the strength in the traffic wing to smoothen the traffic movement in the city.

On cyber frauds, he asked the industrialists to use the ‘Golden Hour’ to report at ‘1930 Cyber Helpline’ number, which will help quickly freezing/lien marking funds moved out of victims’ accounts by cyber fraudsters.

Renowned industrialists SC Ralhan and Neeraj Satija appreciated the efforts of the DGP.

Earlier, Yadav has also visited DAV Police Public School, Ludhiana, and gave tips on how to crack the UPSC.

While on way to the city in the morning, he stopped at the Kohara naka for inspection and review its functioning.