LAHORE: Lahore Police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested as many as, 6026 hardcore criminals during its ongoing crackdown against criminals involved in heinous crimes.

According to a spokesperson of Lahore Police, out of the total 6026 offenders, as many as 2217 were Proclaimed Offenders whereas 984 were Targeted Offenders and 2825 were Court Absconders.

Accordingly, he added, police arrested 317 POs of category ‘A’ and 1900 POs of category ‘B’. Lahore Police also arrested as many as 250 proclaimed offenders from the other districts. Police arrested 51 court absconders of category ‘A’ whereas, 2774 CAs of category ‘B’ this year till now, the spokesman said.

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The Capital City Police Officer Lahore Additional IG Fayyaz Ahmad Dev has said that Lahore Police has devised a special strategy to arrest the proclaimed offenders as most of them have been found, involved in heinous and hardcore crimes including illegal possessions, murders, the attempt of murders, kidnappings for ransom, extortions, narcotics.

“All the divisional SPs, SDPOs and SHOs have been directed to meet the target of the arrest of these POs and TOs and speed up crackdown against these criminals,” the CCPO said, adding the overall performance of these police officers and officials will be evaluated by their targets achieved in this regard.