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Expansion
Punjab Police has prepared a Drone Emergency Response System on the Pakistan border. In the first phase of this scheme, Village Police Officers have been deployed in 108 villages of Amritsar. These police officers will work in conjunction with village vigilance committees during the night. Their full focus will be on stopping the smuggling of arms and drugs through drones from Pakistan.
If a drone drops drugs or weapons anywhere, the response team will take action immediately. Punjab Police is working on this project in other districts of the state as well. Narendra Bhargava, DIG of Amritsar Border Range, said that his effort is to completely crack down on arms and drug smuggling. Let us inform that the Border Security Force (BSF) personnel are also guarding the Pakistan border in Punjab.
Let us tell you that the activity of drones had increased a lot in the border districts of Punjab for some time. After this, a high-level meeting of Punjab Police officials was held regarding this matter. It was decided in the meeting that village police officers should be deployed in the villages where drone cases are increasing. These officers will have complete information about the people involved in drug smuggling and criminal activities in the said villages. He will have all his records. Apart from this, there will be details of his property. Along with this, they will have information about all the roads, streets etc. of the village.