Boundary walls of police stations to be raised to foil attacks in city

The city police have found a novel way of stopping attacks on police establishments by putting up tall green net around the boundary walls of the police stations. Besides, sentry posts will also be constructed where it was not existing earlier.

The police have stepped up night domination operation in the city with Police Commissioner Gurpreet Singh Bhullar visiting various police stations, police posts and checkpoints in the night.

Recently, there has been a spurt in incidents of hand grenades and IED attacks on police establishments, including abandoned or closed down police posts and police stations. Nevertheless, senior police officials remained in a denial mode. The recent statements by Punjab Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav and an encounter of alleged three operatives of Khalistan Zindabad Force in Pilibhit area in Uttar Pradesh hint that these attacks were executed by ISI-backed terrorist organizations in Pakistan.

The police have raised the boundary walls to 10 feet so that operatives of terrorist organizations could not throw explosives at police establishments.

A number of measures have been taken by the police for security around police stations. Heavily armed cops along with armoured vehicles would be deputed at the entrance of these police establishments. Besides, senior police officials have directed higher authorities to close down the entrance gates of the police stations by 10pm.

As many as eight such instances were reported in the border state, including four in Amritsar alone, in the last one month.

Recently, the police arrested operatives of Pakistan-based Babbar Khalsa International leader Harwinder Singh Rinda, US-based gangsters-turned terrorists Harpreet Singh, alias Happy Pachhia, Gopi Nawashehria, Gurdev Jaisal and Jeevan Fauji.

The police recovered China-made hand grenades and sophisticated weapons from their possession. They were behind planting IED outside the Ajnala police station and hurling hand grenades at the Gurbaxnagar police chowki in the city and at the Majitha police station in rural belt.